Makes my aspire seem really nice, when My Ibook went I got the Aspire 1350 from DSE on special. I feel so much better, I was thinking I had paid too much. This little laptop has Great sound, and I mean great. I Tried external speakers, and they we worse that the internals, touchpad works ... OK I hate touchpads, so its a usb mouse, but the touchpad works well my only issue was that the video card is not right, its got a savage pro chipset thing KNsomething, so its just using vesa driver, but it works. I also use a usb keyboard, so 3 of the 4 ports are busy, but I have a 4 port hub and hotplug detects everything thru that too. As for the USB-Serial I have used number of USB-Serial cables the best from IT products and the DSE single serial cable (ftdi chipset) were both detected on slackware 9.1 without even lifting a finger I just made a symbolic link from ttyS2 to my ttyusb.. thingy so I could remember where it was. .. (saved me running dmesg to try an remember so often.) howver the acpi has been more of an issue, but FeatherLinux manages it really well, so I think it could be solved if I ever feel I realy need all the bells and whistles to work. And a nice solid pcmcia slot, but its a single only. so no pcmcia type 3 cards in it. My only complaint is the heat from the rear left hand side, But tonight for some reason Its appreciated. its got an athlon 2600+ mobile in it. Gund Wehsling wrote:
Have A10, ditto.
Would rather have my old Dell back.
If it covers your bases then buy it. It does not work for me though.
The speakers are pathetic, and the touch-pad is quite useless! As useful as an on-board mouse can be on occasions, I replaced it with an external USB wheelmouse immediately (it has no PS2 port).
-- A Life ???? Sounds great, where can I download one of those ??