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Keith Abraham wrote: > Anyone else been following this thread. Worth reading most > of it before making up your mind. > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249 > > I does appear as if Foxconn has been making sure that > Linux will be unstable on at least one of their motherboards. > > Linux has always had trouble with ACPI so I wonder does this > point to the reason why? > > Keith > Not seen this thread myself, but I understand that the Ei System 1201 (here http://tinyurl.com/54uzpo) at PC World and Currys at £279 also has ACPI problems with Linux and requires things like ACPI turning off to run Linux. Not sure if it's a similar problem, but from what I've read (here - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5224540 and here - http://browncoatcat.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/laptop-update-2) it won't work very well and PC World won't accept it back. I was going to get one of these notebooks too until I read this. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html