Hi folks, I've just finished setting up an Acer TravelMate 5730 for a customer of mine. During the setup I created a recovery disk for the machine using PartImage and thought I'd mention that it works fine with Linux Mint 7. Although I didn't actually get chance to try it with Ubuntu (didn't have a disk handy) it worked well in Mint 7, the wireless (Intel wireless), Blue Tooth (Broadcom), wired ethernet (Broadcom) and everything just seemed to work. In fact I had more luck with Mint than I did with XP which blue screened on installation (I had to change the BIOS settings for the SATA controller from AHCI to IDE to get it to work on XP).
I thought this might be useful for anyone looking for a notebook. I did find though that they're not as cheap as some of the notebooks out there as they are aimed at businesses and have Vista Business pre-installed (along with an XP recovery disc) but I believe Acer do offer refunds on Windows although you do have to send it to their service centre down in Plymouth for them to remove the licence sticker and wipe the drive (I know, silly really). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
