On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Kumaran R <kuma...@kums.in> wrote: > > Yesterday I got the pleasure of using one of the TN govt. > laptops. I think we all remember the struggle whch we had to take to > make the laptop a dual-boot one. And it has paid off (atleast > partially.) > > Hardware Specs: Intel Pentium Dual Core@2.3 GHz, 2 GB DDR3 RAM > (upgradable to 8GB), 320 GB Western Digital SATA 2.5" HDD, 14.1" > 1366x768 LCD Screen, etc,. > > On the whole the laptop doesn't feel cheap. Its light in weight > thanks to the absence of a DVD drive and Wifi. The keyboard is not > upto Lenovo standards, but it is still much better than most laptop > keyboards. I'm typing this email in this keyboard, and it offers good > feedback.. The display is a 14" 1366x768. It has good brightness but > poor viewing angles and lots of glare, thanks to the glossy finish. > The lack of wifi is a huge disappointment. The battery lasted just > under 3 hours (2:58) while doing light web-browsing and playing music > (max. brightness and max. volume). Overall, the design is good with a > good textured feel. It feels solid to hold, and doesn't have lots of > flex. > > It has a dual boot with Windows 7 Professional and BOSS > GNU/Linux. I haven't tested Windows 7 much. It has a Office 2010 > Starter Edition and Microsoft Security Essentials (I doubt if that is > an anti-virus.) It has few educational apps too. Most of the hard-disk > space (~200 GB) is allocated for it. It logs in by default as a root > user. > > The BOSS Linux 4.0, has GNOME 2.30 and OpenOffice.org 3.2. It has > few educational apps like Thirukural and Tamil Keyboard. It also has > the TN govt. textbooks for classes 11 and 12 in .pdf format. I had to > update 8 packages after connecting to the internet. They have just > shifted the top panel to the bottom to make it more "windows-like". > Overall, BOSS works fine and fast.. It has iceweasel and icedove for > web-browsing and mail. >
That was a nice review. Thanks Kumaran. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
