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