A good ultraportable laptop for Linux.
I've bought it in a refurbished laptop shop 10 months ago, repartitionned it with ntfs-resize & cfdisk, and installed Arch Linux + Ubuntu on side with Windows XP pro (Arch beeing the main used distro on it).
I must say that I was not so lucky, having a HD failure the first week then another problem (went back to the store where they took the broken one & gave me another, same specs), then the So-Dimm sdRAM module went off 2 months ago.
Despite all those issues, this machine is close to perfection for my use : Demonstration, coding, server experimentation (PHP, Lighttpd, Zope+Plone) & playing with WM :)
* Pros :
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+ It's very light but has a sharp & efficient 1024x768 screen
+ Has ~2 hours autonomy with "Low consumption mode" (500MHz) + laptop-mode activated, where it stil run fast & stable
+ Most of the components were recognized under both installed Linux and Live CDs
+ Ships with integrated Ethernet, 2 USB-1.1, nice touchpad
+ keyboard's efficent
* Cons :
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- Can't get Alsa work with the Cirrus Logic Crystal CS4281 PCI Audio
- cannot get lm_sensors running
- weak cooling (only @ full speed)
* Output of lspci:
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic Crystal CS4281 PCI Audio (rev 01)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
00:10.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics WinModem 56k (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8180 (rev 20)
* Usefull links :
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Slackware 10.1 on a Dell Latitude L400
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Dell Latitude L400 [RedHat7.2]
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