I had issues in 2.6.x releases with the cpu hitting 100% usage whenever the lid was shut. There are steps described at Rhett Kipps' Home Page) how to fix this issue.
Other than that, I've yet to get S2R/S2D going, but it's a reasonable laptop.
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