I am using a dell studio17 now, about 2yrs old, only problem thus far is that the wifi card died. Most of my internet search shows toshiba scoring consistently well. I am looking for the specs above and laptop reliability, mainly. I am looking to purchase a laptop new, mainly for scientific computing (use of 64-bit matlab in particular), will set up to dual boot with ubuntu and windows. Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), SP1ġGB GDDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M with NVIDIA® Optimus™ Technology ![]() Were you ever able to try installation on the toshiba satellite-750? their website on the current model quotes the following specs: I keep getting the message "Unable to mount location"/"Failed to retrieve share list from server" Otherwise all seems good, although I'm not a power-user and so have not tested my installation as deeply as others might. The other difficulty I have yet to understand and fix is to do with seeing the XP pc but not being able to access its shared drives. I have only succeeded in this by not using Xinerama and configuring for TwinView. I have an external LCD monitor (vga signal from the video card) and I like to be able to make my external monitor my main monitor and to be able to move open windows between monitors at will. Had difficulty configuring the proprietary driver. In here, click on "X Server Display Configuration" To configure the nvidia driver go to the Dash/More Apps icon and click on the NVIDIA X server-settings. I ended up installing the last one in the list that has "(version-current-updates)" at the end of its title. Went to "System settings" and clicked on "Additional Drivers", in the "Hardware" section to download and install latest driver for my video card (nvidia nvs quadro 140m). Setup my email client and access to the printer shared from an XP pc on my LAN ![]() Setup wireless access to my LAN (Netgear WiFi router/modem) and the internet Used update mgr to update my installation Have been using the ubuntu interface (selected once, at logon) Used gparted to create a partition to be mounted as / and one for a swap ![]() Successful install and use (except for some niggles- see below) Will wait for 12.04 before doing any further upgrades. Sound all works, the camera works, Skype works, suspend works (wakes up and connects to wifi in about 15 seconds), and with the fan control enabled it is completely silent, except when it is working hard (eg playing a movie). It seems to be faster, booting to the password for my wifi in about 35 to 40 seconds from cold. It had been running slower so rather than update, I backed up my data and did a clean install of 10.04 after wiping the drive with PartedMagic. When I originally bought the netbook in 2008 it had Linpus Lite installed, which I wiped and installed 8.04, later upgraded to 9.04. I also tried a couple of the SSD tweaks: elevator=noop in GRUB & noatime in fstab for / I used fixed both with some of the info from here: I partitioned the SSD with 6.6Gb for /, 7.3Gb for ?home and 2.2Gb swap.Įverything works out of the box except for the fan control and the right side SD card reader. One Aspire 110L Netbook (1Gb Ram, 16Gb SSD)
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