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Originally Posted by jostber (Post 5030511)

This would be great. I followed the guide at the Ubuntu site, but it would be good to have one that is specific for Slackware. It's a great laptop that works very nicely after some adjustments.

Alright, I'll get to it next week then. It's something I've been meaning to finish for a while, but since we're stuck with 24 hour days instead of 30, I've kept putting it off. But if there is actually someone who would like to see it, that gives me a reason to make the time!

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Originally Posted by BloomingNutria (Post 5030345)

For a business class machine that small, the only options I am aware of are the Zenbook and the Acer Aspire S7 (not to be confused with the Aspire netbook I mentioned above; this one is made of aluminum and has the Core series processors, 1080p, a touchscreen, etc.), and some hybrid tablet/laptop convertibles like the Sony Vaio Duo 11. However, even if you are looking at 12" or under, I would suggest you still consider the Dell XPS 13, because even though it has a 13" screen, they made a point of stretching the screen all the way out to the edges of the chassis so the actual form factor is not much different than some of the 11.6 inch ones. My Zenbook, for instance, has about an inch of space around the sides. The Dell does not. I have also heard the Dell is particularly friendly to Linux. I might have gotten one myself, except for the fact that I read some bad reviews about the touchpad. This year's model of the Zenbook (but not last year's!) did better in that respect--and it just looks cool. :)

If I had it to do over again I would probably still get the Zenbook, but there are some caveats. Other than the really stunning metal design and the extreme lightness (I think it may be the lightest ultrabook on the market, but don't quote me), one of the main reasons I chose it was because of the screen. They actually have two different display options, one of which is a normal HD, and another, which I got, which is an IPS with 1900 x 1080 resolution. It really is brilliant. However, with a resolution this high on a relatively small screen, I had to do a lot of tweaking to get things to be the right size. I have it basically the way I want it now, but every once in a while there will be cases when I have an issue come up where things are not rendered at the right size, and I will have to deal with it. Don't get me wrong, it's a great machine, and like I said I would probably buy it again, but it has seriously made me wish for resolution independence in Linux. One should definitely be aware that this issue exists before thinking about getting one.

Of course, the one with the standard HD display would have no such issue. But I guess I would still rather spend a few days fiddling than sacrifice image quality. It's a matter of preference, though. Mileage may vary.

Anyway, I hope this helped!

Is the SSD in a standard drive format so it can be swapped for a bigger drive?

I'm running on an ASUS EeePC 2G Surf.
The 9" (800x600) screen is a little tight, but I can get a full install on here *IF* I dedicate the card in the SD slot to /usr.

With a big enough card (I've got a 32G in there right now), I can install anything I want, just be sure not to leave much in my /home folder. I have a /usr/share/myshare directory that I'm using as my "/home away from /home"

The 256M RAM is awfully tight as well. Can't use KDE (and besides, KDE loads my /home directory with megs and megs of config files), I use xfce instead. KDE tends to assume a larger screen than I have. Facebook will easily lock up my browser, but otherwise I've had no problem.

I've dedicated half of the internal 2G HDD as swap so I can hibernate. I just close my lid and go, open it back up and I'm back in business. Very convenient.

...and it fits in my jacket pocket. Can't beat that!

Asus 1215N EeePC

Intel Atom D525 @1.8GHz (4 cores)
generic kernel, 1337 64bit
Intel N10 graphics, i915, 1366x768, 96DPI

SD card slot, HDMI/VGA out, USB2.0
SATA ACHI controller, Intel SSDSA2CW120G3, hdparm -tT == 260MB/s
Atheros AR8152 100bT ethernet
Atheros AR9285 (ath9k module)

Nvidia Optimus not used to save battery, use peberlein-acpi_call (may no longer be needed in 14/current).

http://linux-hybrid-graphics.blogspo...arameters.html

Cheers,

interesting the ASUS 1215 is similar to my eeepc900 but a little bigger. I went to their site and looked at the 1015 but they are all limited to 2G ram, basically the same as I have now. Got a good laugh too as they are selling them with MSOffice pre-installed, my work assigned full size leveno laptop with 8G of RAM runs out of resources in Excel often so I know 2G would never work for MSoffice.

Lenovo IdeaPad s300, 13", core i3 @1.8GHz.
Running Slackware current, previously ran 14, never had any issue.
Also, it came with no Windows on it.

I've used a few Thinkpads: T21, T42, T43 and now a T420. They all work great with Slack.

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Originally Posted by vonbiber (Post 5021412)

lenovo T430s 14" (intel graphic card)
I had an issue with the graphic card (random freezing)
which was solved by building a new kernel

Interesting, I installed Slackware-current (14.1) not too long ago on the same model and have had no issues with graphics. I haven't had time to do much tweaking yet, so later I'd like to play around w/ Bumblebee for more performance when needed. Thus far, graphics have worked fine out of the box w/ no issues. Anything you do to cause it to freeze (heavy graphics load, etc)? Perhaps a newer kernel is what you needed. Not all of my Fn combos work out of the box, however.

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Originally Posted by lazardo (Post 5040198)

UPDATE:

Upgraded to 14.1, replaced peberlein-acpi with bumblebee:

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:har...nvidia_optimus

Significant temperature/power savings with bumblebee, works over suspend/resume.

Cheers,

I've run Slackware 13.37, 14.0 and 14.1 on my MacBook Pro 17", Core i7, 8GB ram, 512Gb SSD. And it's been pretty great. 14.1 has been perfect from the time I installed it. I would imagine Slackware would run well on a MacBook Air as well. As for Apple's service, I spilled water on it the first year I had it, and they replaced the entire thing (was $4,500 new)no questions asked. And I've had the keyboard replaced one under warranty as well.

If you don't want Apple for sure, then I'm a Dell fan.

My Thinkpad X220 with i7-2620 and Intel graphics works nicely with Slackware 32 bit current :-)

OMG this will likely cause a giggle or two. I have a Sony Vaio that employs a Pentium II @ 450MHz, maxed out with 256MB ram that is a multi-boot box. It has FreeDoS, OS/2 Warp 4.5, WinXP and Slackware 12.2 on it. I replaced the hard drive with a 7200 rpm Seagate 100 GB drive, and everything runs really well except for XP. Not joking.

I'm uncertain why XP isn't all that terrible to boot but certain applications are just excruciatingly, "go postal" slow such as Networking Properties.

Slackware 12.2 is slow by modern standards but not at all painful and is actually quite useful.

It rather cracks me up that OS/2, which came out around the time of Win95 (which will not run on a 64bit system or even one with more than 1GB of RAM), will not only run like a scalded cat on amphetamines on a 64bit CPU with 64 GB RAM, but the very same OpSys is quite snappy on this P2 450 w/ 256MB, even though it has a full X11 desktop (I run a version of Enlightenment most often) but these days more often than not I just stick with Warp Center to remind myself where I am.

Edit: Oops! Sorry OP I was so hot to post this lil' beast that I did so before I read any more than the subject line. Didn't realize you were shopping for more than "war stories". Hope it's worth a giggle or a wrinkled brow :P

MSI Wind U100
2GB RAM, Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz CPU
Slackware 14.1 32 bit
Kernel 3.12
DE: XFCE
Works nice.