[Sussex] Acer laptops

[Dominic Humphries]

Run away! Run away! 

:)

Okay.. my Acer laptop has actually done better than I expected, I must
admit. It's 4 1/2 years old; the optical drive no longer works; the
battery life is down to about one minute; and the power cord (as people
who attended the last SLUG moot can testify) needs to be held in place
in order to supply power.

I installed the latest ubuntu on it a few weeks ago, wifi was completely
non-functional with the drivers it auto-installed. I replaced the
drivers, and I can now SEE networks but not connect to any of them. (By
contrast, I can boot it into Windows and the wifi works fine)

I'm sure I can eventually get the wifi to work - it's not been a high
priority for me - but regardless of how well it works (or not) with
Linux, I would never buy another Acer. 

Dom

On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 10:03 +0100, aotley at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello list , I am thinking of getting an acer 5742z at a bargain 250 quid off ebuyer 
> Any one got much experience with acers and Linux .....concerns will be wireless drivers I guess, 
> Thanks in advance
> Andy
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