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Acer Aspire1711SMi
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1 5643 11-25-2005
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100% of reviewers $2,110.00 6.0
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Description: A Acer heavyweight Laptop???
Pentium4 @2.8GHz
17inch SVGA LCD-Monitor
nVidia GeForce FXGo5700 64MB (Monitor-out && SVGA-out)
USB2, Firewire, 6in1 card-reader
Broadcom BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet
Intel 82801EB AC'97 Audio Controller
Intel 82801EB AC'97 Modem Controller (winmodem)
Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g Wireless
QSI DVDRW SDW-042 (on Secondary Master)
HDD (on Primary Master)
Keywords: Laptop Acer Aspire Ubuntu
/sbin/lspci output: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0348 (rev a1)
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
0000:03:01.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
0000:03:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
0000:03:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)


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Old 11-25-2005, 06:27 PM   #1
pentar
 
Registered: Nov 2005
Distribution: kubuntu/ubuntu
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $2,110.00 | Rating: 6

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.10-5-386
Distribution: Ubuntu 5.04 "Hoary"



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no probs on install... however...

-The "fake-modem" uses "smartlink-softmodem"
-The Wireless-device runs under the horrendous 'ndiswrapper'
-The radio-antenna-button does not create a keyboard-event (so I still have to figure a nice way to notice if it is pressed).

-On my previous installation (SuSE9.0) the card-reader-devices kept on creating (unnessesary) stderr-output (and events) while no card was plugged (went away as soon I plugged one). This did not occur on Ubuntu!

-Don't forget to install the nvidia-glx and nvidia-tv drivers (I did forget the latter one and 'wonder': no tv-out on the show-off-session!)

-My previous Laptop-Model 1704SM had the hdd attached to Ide-Secondary-Master (until I found that one...), so kernel-parameter "hda=ide-scsi" was a bit of a trouble.

One of the main disadvantages is the weight (7.2kg, locked and loaded)
On the other hand it accepts Desktop HDD's and Memory. (So I've got a 200GB Hd inside now...
It gets quite a bit warm and is also not really silent...
The Power-supply (500W) will get HOT (42C).
Battery is good for about 45 to 50 minutes while working.
Closing the lid will up the Battery-time to about 2:30h (for if jou only want to play music, or compile, or have a TV-set attached, or want to have it on anyways)
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