On Dec 13, 2012 12:46 PM, "Chris Samuel" <chris@csamuel.org> wrote:

On 13/12/12 10:24, Russell Coker wrote:

> Chris Samuel wrote about his good experiences with ZaReason (who made the
> laptop he had at the last LUV meeting).  His laptop looks like a nice device.

Thanks Russell, and yes it is.. ;-)

http://zareason.co.nz/UltraLap-430.html

Mine has 8GB of RAM (standard is 4GB, max is 16GB) and an i5 Ivy Bridge
CPU (standard is an i3).  It has both an mSATA port and a SATA port so I
currently have a 64GB mSATA and I plan on adding an Intel SATA SSD to it
some time next year.  It's got gigabit ethernet, 2 x USB3, 1 x USB2 and
HDMI out.

My only issue was that I wanted to use it for my LUV talk at the start
of December and hadn't been able to get an HDMI->VGA converter so had to
borrow Russells for that (thanks!).

My $35 converter has now arrived and works nicely (KDE detects it as an
external display) and it just works.

Only glitch is EFI/BIOS related, when it resumes from suspend (which
also works very nicely) it comes up with wifi and bluetooth disabled,
you need to do Fn-F2 to wake it up again.  Kind of like resuming into
airplane/flight mode.

With 3.5 kernel it draws about 8W when idling, and with 3.7 kernel it's
about 7.7W.

cheers!
Chris
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 Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC
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