Hello folks, Due to Office Depot's unfair "14 day exchange only" policy I could not just return Toshiba Satellite L675D-S7016 and get all my money back. They offered me in exchange another 16" display Toshiba Satellite A665-S6067 Intel i7 quad core CPU laptop.
This one has nVidia GeForce GT330M graphic chipset and RTL8111/RTL8168 10/100/1000 Ethernet controller. This laptop was significantly better than the previous one. The graphic controller performs superbly, as well as its wired and WiFi network interfaces. The only caveat is that I cannot enable from Linux its keyboard back light and keyboard controlled functions like suspend to disk, suspend to RAM and others. Though, sound volume and brightness adjustments work correctly. I assume, that some keyboard functions require drivers which don't exist in Linux yet. Alex On 06/21/10 10:28, Alex wrote: > Hello folks, > > I in a desperate need of a new notebook/laptop for the oncoming school year. > On a whim I've purchased this laptop in Office Depot > Toshiba Satellite L675D-S7016 *$634.99* > http://laptops.toshiba.com/laptops/satellite/L670/L675D-S7016 > It works somewhat . . . > It has a slow 100MB only Realtek RTL8102E Ethernet controller and > Realtek 8172 WiFi controller which I cannot make working, no matter what > I did. > Its ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 graphic controller is not performing in > KDE4 as well as nVidia > on my RIP old Sager laptop. No openGL support and dodgy scrolling and > windows moving /resizing. > I'm running open SUSE 11.2 on this new thing, which I'm going to return > back to the store. > > Could somebody please recommend, based on the personal experience, a > decent notebook with the following > characteristics: > 1. 15 - 17" Display > 2. Turion II or less desirable Athlon II dual core CPU. Quad core is > fine as long as it's AMD > 3. 1 GB Ethernet controller > 4. Wi-Fi Wireless 802.11b/g/n controller which is known to work with > Linux without excessive headaches. > 5. nVidia integrated graphic controller. In the worst case scenario I > can live with ATI Radeon. > 6. At least 4GB DDR3 RAM expandable up to 8GB. I don't want to have > older and slower DDR2 RAM. > 7. Preferably in black or other non-flashy matte colors. I don't like > that bright and cheesy silverish goldish el'cheapo glossy colors. > > Thank you in advance for any hints or recommendations, > > Alex > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
