New Laptop
June 28th, 2008
I just got myself a Toshiba U400-108, which works really well with (K)ubuntu 8.04. I haven’t found anything yet which doesn’t work out-of-the-box.
The following stuff all works:
- CPU frequency scaling.
- Suspend-to-RAM.
- The LCD screen (haven’t yet tested the external monitor).
- Wireless networking
The only problems that I’ve found are:
- The laptop gets quite hot under the trackpad (i.e: in the crotch area).
The battery reports zero chargeThe battery just takes a really long time to charge on the first use.
I don’t think any of these are big issues though, and I’d recommend the laptop to anyone who is looking for a new one. The laptop also has an HDMI socket which appears to be supported by the intel xorg server, but I haven’t tested it yet.
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3 Comments
1. paul dawson | July 7th, 2008 at 10:02 am
I rather expected this to read “got myself an eee” or “got myself an Acer Aspire” or “got myself an MSI Wind”. Does the ultra-portable not appeal?
Paul.
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