Related: Brightness fix.
The laptop cost me 839 Singapore dollars which is equivalent to some 600 US dollars. I thought it was pretty good value.
Specs of the laptop are: Intel Pentium T4200 at 2Ghz, 3 GB of DDR3 Ram, 250GB HDD and Intel GMA4500M video chipset.
I did my install from a USB thumb drive. The thumb drive was created by using a Ubuntu 9.04 livecd and "usb-creator" command that comes on the livecd. After creating the factory restore disks in Vista I got on with the install.
The installation was amazingly painless. The laptop does not display a message on the boot screen on how one can get to the BIOS settings. A little bit of googling revealed that F2 during start of boot will get me there. After changing the boot order in BIOS to boot from USB, I rebooted the machine and Ubuntu's installer started off. After selecting language and such Ubuntu took me to the partitioning tool. I decided to dual boot Vista and Linux, so after setting aside space for linux, some 50GB I let Ubuntu's installer do its thing.
The partitioning and installation went through pretty painlessly and I booted into Linux and have been enjoying my time there. The performance has been good and I am not seeing any issues with the Intel Graphic chipset.
Since I prefer KDE, I switched to that using:
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop (Selected KDM when it prompted me for that).
sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop ( to remove Gnome desktop and free up some space)
sudo apt-get autoremove (To cleanup)
Benchmarks:
Kernel version: cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009
Bogomips using cat /proc/cpuinfo
CPU 0: 3989.85
CPU 1: 3989.96
$ glxgears
3884 frames in 5.0 seconds = 776.770 FPS
3937 frames in 5.0 seconds = 787.264 FPS
3913 frames in 5.0 seconds = 782.374 FPS
3951 frames in 5.0 seconds = 790.153 FPS
3948 frames in 5.0 seconds = 789.423 FPS
3966 frames in 5.0 seconds = 793.111 FPS
3960 frames in 5.0 seconds = 791.963 FPS
which os did u install first? linux or vista?
ReplyDeleteVista comes pre installed on the laptop, so Vista was installed first.
ReplyDeleteGenerally in my experience if you want to dual boot Windows and Linux, it is easiest if you install Windows first.
This model comes with the fingerprint-reader thingee, right! Did you get it working in Ubuntu?
ReplyDeleteNo I never tried to get it working. So have no idea if it works under Ubuntu.
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