Looking forward to reading about your efforts in getting around the
locked-in boot partition of any Win8 machine!
Hendrik
On 13-08-05 03:37 PM, Richard Carter wrote:
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 <mailto: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.____
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*From:*clug-talk [mailto:clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca
<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____
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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.____
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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.____
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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.____
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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.____
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There are some smaller OEMs (like Sager, I buy Power and Rosewill)
where you can get decent components, YMMV with them.____
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On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Andrew Robinson
<and...@boohahaonline.com <mailto: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.
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-----Original Message-----
*From:* Richard Carter [carter.r....@gmail.com
<mailto:carter.r....@gmail.com>]
*Received:* Saturday, 03 Aug 2013, 9:49
*To:* CLUG General [clug-talk@clug.ca <mailto:clug-talk@clug.ca>]
*Subject:* [clug-talk] Installing Linux on Acer V7____
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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____
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