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Wow I haven't looked at Ubuntu since Gutsy. This demo certainly makes me want to give it a whirl again. Before I spend hours playing with it, can anyone clue me in on its media performance (playing flash videos, dual screen, music software, etc.)
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Not really OEM, but I'm running 11.04 on an Acer 3810T laptop. I am getting 6 hours on it with wi-fi, and the battery has lost about 10% of its charge capacity. With a brand new battery I could see it getting about 7-7.5 hours. An OEM with a newer processor and an SSD should be able to hit 8 hours easily.
I have the 3810T too and I can report similar numbers. But still, I get more life when I boot into Windows. Moreover, suspend & hibernate just don't work & the laptop fan always stays on. It could be a buggy BIOS for all I know but we could still do better. Thus, an OEM option where _everything works_ would definitely be nice.
the fan thing is a problem for me too, but it doesn't get crazy loud.
Also check if you have the latest BIOS from Acer. Latest version is 1.28 I think.
An OEM laptop with 8 hours of battery life please
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Not really OEM, but I'm running 11.04 on an Acer 3810T laptop. I am getting 6 hours on it with wi-fi, and the battery has lost about 10% of its charge capacity. With a brand new battery I could see it getting about 7-7.5 hours. An OEM with a newer processor and an SSD should be able to hit 8 hours easily.
I have the 3810T too and I can report similar numbers. But still, I get more life when I boot into Windows. Moreover, suspend & hibernate just don't work & the laptop fan always stays on. It could be a buggy BIOS for all I know but we could still do better. Thus, an OEM option where _everything works_ would definitely be nice.
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His complaint is very valid in my opinion. Imagine Granny Smith being sent to that page and opening it on her 1024x768 notebook.
Granny Smith would be pretty used to things looking wrong on her 1024x768 laptop - besides, a resolution that low indicates that the laptop is positively ancient. Would she be really looking to replace the OS on it? Even if she were, is this demographic even remotely large?
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It got people effortlessly demoing the OS's UI, I think it's spot on.
But it's not REALLY the OS's UI, is it....it's a bunch of HTML made to look like the OS's UI. Sure it might be indicative, but a video and some screen shots would also be indicative.
It seems they fast prototyped unity using web. There are two things that I can't stand about it on a real laptop: 1)When you maximize files folders, and it seems it is default, the desktop icons occlude the links on the file browser, and is SO UGLY. 2)My laptop hangs when I try to restore compiz with --restore. I really miss the 3d cube. So I'm downloading fedora or anything that makes it usable again.
> So I'm downloading fedora or anything that makes it usable again. Good luck with that - Fedora uses GNOME 3 by default. It seems the only WM I'm personally happy with nowadays is XFCE.
But in a month's time, this is definitely going on my lappy.
Kubuntu user here. I'm a bit confused on how the left bar in this tour of unity works. I see that if I click home folder, the file manager opens up. However, if the file manager is already opened, clicking home just switches to file manager (even if it is not in the home folder!). So, how do I actually launch multiple instances of a program?