On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Robert P. J. Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Chris Irwin wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 09:45, Robert P. J. Day <<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> > i've had consistently good luck with refurb'ed laptops from<br>
> > tigerdirect, and it had what i wanted for my new system (1600x900<br>
> > display, DDR3 memory, basic HW virt support, HDMI port), and at<br>
> > that price, it's hard to go wrong.<br>
><br>
> Let us know how the graphics work. I haven't heard much about the<br>
> new Intel on-package graphics. It would be nice to get a first-hand<br>
> report.<br>
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</div> just pulled it out of the UPS box, plugged it in, booted to live<br>
ubuntu 10.04, desktop is running at 1600x900, wireless connected,<br>
seems fine, pretty much what i expected. sadly, it's only the i3<br>
processor (as advertised) rather than the unexpected bonus of an i5,<br>
but i can live with that. and it's actually fairly light.<br>
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regarding graphics, i have no need for blinding speed, i just want<br>
lots of pixels for real estate. as long as it runs at native res, i'm<br>
happy. all in all, a fairly good deal.<br></blockquote><div><br>A great deal at that price vs. features for sure. Good thing most things work.<br>What about sound? Are there decent channels showing in the mixer (Master,<br>
Speaker, Headphone and Capture at a minimum?)<br><br>When you plug in a headphone, do the main speakers go mute, or does sound<br>come out from both headphones and the built in speakers are the same time?<br><br>We had an audio issue with the Core i3 350M Toshiba that I mentioned earlier<br>
when booting from the Kubuntu 10.04 CD. Wireless (Atheros) worked great,<br>the screen native resolution was recognized (1366x768). Only the sound had<br>a problem. <br><br>Also, it lacked the hardware buttons for audio play/mute/stop/pause/...etc. which<br>
was the deal breaker for my daughters. We took it back and got a gift card. Allows<br>us to look for better deals in Back To School time.<br></div></div>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>
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