I have an Asus U64E BAL5 (about a year old). $600, 750GB hard drive, 8GB RAM, dual-core (hyperthreaded) Intel i5 2.3 GHz, comes with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit but runs every major Linux since openSUSE 12.1, including Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint. Only Linux issue when I got it a year ago was the touchpad - older kernels see it as a PS/2 mouse. The audio and WiFi work just fine and my ancient USB gamer headset does as well. It weighs about five pounds. I picked this one over all the others mostly because it was the only reasonably priced model with 8 GB. There may be more now. One note - if you're going to buy a Windows laptop and dual-boot it (or blow away Windows entirely) I'd get one before the Windows 8 machines start coming out. The "secure boot / UEFI" situation isn't clear at all. Both Fedora and Ubuntu have a "plan" for dealing with that, but a plan is not the same thing as a supported, engineered solution. And last time I looked, openSUSE was still formulating a plan. On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:59 AM, david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hmmm, maybe look at small laptops instead of just netbooks? They're not as > cheap as netbooks, but have much more power. I don't think any netbook > approaches laptop performance. > > > On 09/14/2012 08:31 AM, Jeff Sandys wrote: >> >> Ken, L2ORK uses the MSI Wind U100 notebook. >> MSI computers is a sponsor of the pd-l2ork project. >> -- Jeff Sandys >> >>> It's time to finally retire my 2008-vintage EEE 1000 netbook, and get one >>> with a faster processor and dual cores. >>> >>> I won't need it for music-- the old one was plenty powerful enough for >>> what I was doing anyway-- but I need it for work, and, java runs like an >>> absolute pig on the old EEE (as does Firefox, and Chromium, and just about >>> anything modern). >>> >> ... >>> >>> >>> Any advice on a fast (approaching laptop performance) netbook? > > > > -- > David > gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > authenticity, honesty, community > http://clanjones.org/david/ > http://dancing-treefrog.deviantart.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench: http://j.mp/QCsXOr How the Hell can the lion sleep with all those people singing "A weem oh way!" at the top of their lungs? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
