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I'd love to try that. You mean a hardware metering tool?
Try to run "powertop".
Update: it's also possible the GPU is the culprit: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786665
I see a lot of comments here recommending a Macbook Air and I wanted to inform you, just so you are perfectly aware, that this computer does not even have an ethernet input. Perhaps not a game changer, but it gives a picture of what kind of features Apple has scraped away in order to reduce it's size. Personally I would choose a Thinkpad, were I you.
When was the last time you connected a laptop to something with a wired ethernet port? I honestly can't remember...
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Yes. I have had to completely disable the trackpad on my Lenovo X220, and I use its 'nipple' mouse button instead.
Its clitmouse. :) and i recommend you enable the touchpad for scrolling. On X you can configure all the area.
Actually, the 'nipple' plus the centre scroll button works quite well. Just hold down that button, and apply pressure to scroll.
Not an ultra; but I was looking for something similar, I think to what you were looking for. Small, but still useable, light, fast, good build quality and hopefully cheap. I did a alot of research and watched slickdeals.com regularly for deals and ended up with an Asus 1215b with an E-350 processor. It comes with 2gb of ram, but I put another 4gb stick (22$) to bring it to 6; and replaced the hard drive with an ssd (…
I didn't notice any touchpad problems. I disabled the two-finger multitouch scrolling in favour of the one-finger vertical scrolling region because I just couldn't get used to it after a few weeks of trying. It requires me to hold my hand at an odd angle which feels uncomfortable. Then I re-enabled it because I found myself trying the two-finger gesture (in vain) in certain situations, so now I'm using both depending on how I sit and I'm happy. Except that sometimes it doesn't seem to detect the scrolling (for either method) but it's not like the touchpad-issue as I saw it on the YouTube videos.
One thing you really should consider is that IMO the display quality is not all too great:
One, I got a bit of LED-bleeding on the left side of the screen, nothing too serious, just a bit brighter than the rest, but enough to at one time trick me into wondering "huh I don't remember jEdit's line number margin had a gradient in it?".
Two, sometimes the white appears blown out, like over-exposed. At first this was way worse and I almost took it back until I found out it wasn't happening always and it turned out to be some sort of power-saving setting. However after disabling that, it's still not very good. For instance I need to turn my display at an angle in order to be able to read the lightest "dead" comments on HN, which I did not have to do on my last netbook.
Third, if the sun's shining outside, even with the (semi-translucent) shades drawn, watching a dark scene in a movie is difficult. Of course it's no optimal condition and my last netbook had trouble with it as well, but not as bad. Maybe it helped that the netbook's screen surface was diffuse and this one's got a reflective surface. I don't know why they make reflective screen surfaces anyway??
There's a slight possibility that some of these problems are software, since I run Ubuntu on the netbook and this one's still got Win7. I will see.
Otherwise, it's a great device!
One thing that has always killed me in regards to non-Apple laptops is the touchpad. Everyone does it wrong. By this I mean that they're small and not very sensitive, the attempts to integrate scrolling are janky. Anyone care to comment on the current status of that? A lot of people dislike Apple but the subtle things like this are what keep me here. It's so simple to scroll and click and right click with just light…
On the other hand, when I have to use a friend's Apple touchpad, I usually find them awkward to use. But given that Apple's got such a good name I'm certain it would just be a matter of getting used to its "feel" if I had to use it more.
Maybe you got the same experience in reverse, that even the good touchpads feel strange to you because you're used to Apple touchpads.
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When was the last time you connected a laptop to something with a wired ethernet port? I honestly can't remember...
You would think that, but more than half the hotels I stay at still don't offer wireless.
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Ethernet? I can live without. But page down key? Backspace and delete? F keys? Mouse buttons? Price? And that's the superficial stuff.
> And that's the superficial stuff. That's also weird/misinformed stuff to say the least: > Backspace and delete? The Air has a backspace key, and a forward delete can be achieved via Fn-backspace (on OSX at least) > F keys? Of course, 12 of them > Mouse buttons? Yes, two. > Price? Same price category as most other ultrabooks.
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Every notebook in the planet can. You don't have to a) wait the manufacturer to offer you b) pay the amount they ask
This isn't true. There are notebooks that have the slot inside but not the mSATA support.