Thanks for your comments gents. I had a rush of blood to the brain and splashed out for the acer v7 before I had a chance to read the comment from Gustin and Andrew: it has lots of RAM, a "hybrid" drive (a 24gb ssd portion and a 500gb hdd portion) and wasn't too expensive. My plan is to replace windows8 with either ubuntu or debian. I hope I can arrange to have home on the 500gb hdd and the os on the 24gb sdd. Will the installers do that or will it require some clever partitioning of the "hybrid" drive? I would be grateful for comments.
Robin On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Andrew Robinson <and...@boohahaonline.com>wrote: > Not to sound condescending, but I have been selling computer hardware > since before the turn of the century, both corporate and retail, and I > believe that you are confusing a netbook with an ultra-book. An ultra-book > is built like most other laptops, the only difference being that an > ultra-book is thinner than a typical laptop. In regards to solder on ram > any brand of laptop, be it a netbook, an ultra- book, or a regular laptop > any of these can have ram solder on to the motherboard. In terms of the > screens available on ultra-books and regular laptops are essentially the > same, be it touch screen, high resolution, ips, or other feature. Hardware > wise both styles have very similar hardware, in terms of processor options, > ram speeds, hard drive options, and integrated features.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* clug-talk [mailto:clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca] *On Behalf Of *Gustin > Johnson > *Sent:* Sunday, August 4, 2013 11:53 AM > *To:* CLUG General > *Subject:* Re: [clug-talk] Installing Linux on Acer V7**** > > ** ** > > Do not think of "Ultra-books" as computers. They are appliances that you > will likely not be able to service or upgrade. Generally the RAM is > soldered on and the batteries are not usually replaceable either.**** > > ** ** > > I get that the really thin profile is cool looking, but the crappy > hardware and screens that they stuff into these things is really not worth > it in the long run, at least in my opinion.**** > > ** ** > > There is a reason that I bought a Lenovo T430 instead of an "Ultra-book". > It had a standard mSATA, a slim (7mm) SATA 2.5", and a replacable optical > drive (I have a 2.5" drive caddy in place of the optical drive. RAM was > also user serviceable with detachable batteries. The clincher was the > matte IPS panel.**** > > ** ** > > High quality laptops seem to be a dying breed. I used to flip between > several brands (the Dell Latitude line used to be a favourite of mine) as > they had pretty comparable value. Currently only Lenovo seems to make > anything half decent from the top tier vendors.**** > > ** ** > > There are some smaller OEMs (like Sager, I buy Power and Rosewill) where > you can get decent components, YMMV with them.**** > > ** ** > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Andrew Robinson <and...@boohahaonline.com> > wrote:**** > > The 24gb ssd is typically going to be a cache drive. It may not be > possible to install anything on it, this will be a bios limitation. In > terms of replacing the drive in some cases the caching ssd drives have > different mounting holes than standard msata drives. That is the issue I've > got with me Asus laptop. > > Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com)**** > > > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* Richard Carter [carter.r....@gmail.com] > *Received:* Saturday, 03 Aug 2013, 9:49 > *To:* CLUG General [clug-talk@clug.ca] > *Subject:* [clug-talk] Installing Linux on Acer V7**** > > ** ** > > I'm considering buying an Acer V7-581-6489 laptop which has 2 drives; a > 500GB HDD and a 24GB SSD. I want to get rid of Windows 8 and install > Debian and/or Ubunu. Has anyone had any experience doing an install on a > computer of this kind? **** > > What I would really like to do is replace the 24GB SSD with a 128GB SSD. > Is this feasible? **** > > I would be grateful for advice.**** > > Robin**** > > _______________________________________________ > > **** > > clug-talk mailing list > > **** > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > **** > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > **** > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **** > > **Please remove these lines when replying**** > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > > **** > > clug-talk mailing list > > **** > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > **** > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > **** > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **** > > **Please remove these lines when replying**** > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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