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Acer Acer Aspire 4551-4315
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Reviews
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Date of last review
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1
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47449
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11-18-2010
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Recommended By
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Average Price
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Average Rating
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100% of reviewers
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$500.00
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8.0
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Description:
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Acer Aspire Laptop AS4551-4315
- AMD Turion II X2 processor P520 (2.3GHz)
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250
- 14.0" HD LED LCD screen
- 3 GB Memory (stock)
- 320 GB WDC WD3200BEVT-22A23T0 hard drive
- DVD Super Multi DL Drive
- Acer Nplify 802.11b/g/n wireless
- 6 cell Li-ion battery
- Built in web cam
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Keywords:
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acer,aspire,laptop,amd,4551,4315,ati,nplify,turion
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/sbin/lspci output:
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge Alternate
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 9602
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 41)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller (rev 40)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K10 [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4200]
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
06:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
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11-18-2010, 06:39 AM
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Registered: Sep 2008
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 186
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $500.00 | Rating: 8
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.35.7-smp
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Distribution:
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Slackware Linux 13.1
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Using Slackware Linux 13.1 on this machine has been interesting. Slackware rocks, and this is a nice fast laptop with 99% of all hardware supported stock with Linux. However, the graphics card is NOT friendly with Linux just yet. Any attempt to put the screen in a power saving mode results in a hard lock. The Linux kernel developers for the mobility radeon say they are working on direct support for this chipset, but as of yet it is not there. My advice: get some other computer if you want a 100% Linux-compatible screen. Otherwise, if you can tolerate the screen/graphics card issue with Linux, it's a very fast and beautiful laptop, especially for the price tag. Came stock with Windows 7 64bit (but who needs Windows? :)
Granted, the ATI proprietary drivers work with Slackware 13.37-rc1 and following, so one may decide to use those. They work well.
This laptop has some sort of MSI-related or USB-related issues with lock-ups however. I am attempting to figure out the source of the problem. dmesg shows BIOS MSI quirks. Booting with pci=nomsi works but at the expense of some udev/hotplug/automount functionality loss.
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