Centrino laptop with Pentium M processor at 600 MHz to 1.60 GHz, 15.4 WUXGA display at 1920x1200 native resolution. 1 GB DDR SRAM (2 DIMMs). Nvidia GeForce4 4200 Go 4X AGP graphics with 64 MB DDR video RAM. 60 GB 4200 RPM HD. 8-24-10-24X SWDVD/CDRW drive. Floppy drive (dock or USB). Integrated Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet (bcm5700). All above has complete Linux support. Unsupported hardware includes smart card reader and TrueMobile 1300 WLAN 802.11b/g Mini-PCI wireless (partial support possible, but it was easily replaced with a Truemobile 1150 from an older laptop that is well supported). Has firewire and optional Bluetooth neither of which I have tested but are believed to work. As far as I know, nobody has got all ACPI suspend/hibernate states working yet, but they are close. I have run 2.4.20-2.4.26 and 2.6.0-2.6.7 kernels. Cpufreq speedstep control is a kernel patch in 2.4 series. At this moment, kernel tree video and nic drivers are available but I have found the proprietary drivers to be much better performing.
SuSE 9.2 went on without a hitch. Installed by FTP from a SuSE mirror site. All hardware recognized, including the Intel 2100 wireless-G chip. A few of the devices needed third party drivers (including the wireless chip and the nVidia graphics chip), but the online update pulled them down seamlessly.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $3,000.00 | Rating: 7
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.11.4-21.7-default
Distribution:
SuSE
SuSE 9.3 installation went quickly.
Problems:
Dual monitors not working. I'm dealing with nVidia to resolve this.
Docking/undocking will freeze the screen.
The wireless 802.11a/b/g card does not work.
Haven't been able to get my Palm Zire to hot/cold sync.
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