Acer

[Tom Metro]

Englander, Irvin wrote:
> I'd like to hear from others on their Acer experiences, but mine has
> been that Acer produces an inexpensive, solid machine, with a high
> feature and construction to cost ratio. Comments from others?

I've been using an Acer Aspire 8930 (18" screen) as a desktop 
replacement for about 6 months and I have no complains about the 
hardware. At the time when I bought it, it offered the best mix of 
features that were important to me.

It has been well supported by Ubuntu, with the exception of the sound, 
which requires compiling the Alsa driver from source, and 
hibernate/suspend doesn't work out of the box. (Wireless was solid under 
8.10, but has become flaky under 9.04. Hopefully the new kernels will 
resolve that. And technically there are other bits of hardware that 
aren't immediately supports and I haven't tried to make them work, like 
the multimedia buttons, the fingerprint reader, or the subwoofer.)

  -Tom

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