Acer Aspire V3-112 was Re: which netbook not to buy?

2015-07-15 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 02:39:50PM +, Peter J. Philipp wrote: Hi, I'm considering buying a new netbook (currently I have an October 2012 Acer Aspire One). If at all I'd like to stay with Acer but not necessarily. I'm worried about UEFI secure boot on these netbooks. Is there any Acer

Re: Acer Aspire V3-112 was Re: which netbook not to buy?

2015-07-15 Thread Peter J. Philipp
On 07/15/15 18:28, li...@wrant.com wrote: I'm considering buying a new netbook... So you asked what not to buy. You got some good and solid advice from knowledgeable people here regarding what works great including OpenBSD coverage. I'm really happy with my old netbook though. Guess what

Re: Acer Aspire V3-112 was Re: which netbook not to buy?

2015-07-15 Thread lists
I'm really happy with my old netbook though. Guess what everything worked on it except wifi. So I put trust into the same brand, and it has bitten me. X won't work, the intel drm driver doesn't work. I got more luck since I checked the technical specs before purchase. Everything worked on

Re: Acer Aspire V3-112 was Re: which netbook not to buy?

2015-07-15 Thread Ax0n
FWIW, about 5 years ago, my wife bought me a Toshiba NB305 that came with Windows 7 Starter, which I tried to use. I'm okay with Windows when I need to use it, but Starter edition might as well be a Windows kernel with IE and almost no customization available. I do need Windows to program my ham

Re: Acer Aspire V3-112 was Re: which netbook not to buy?

2015-07-15 Thread lists
I'm considering buying a new netbook... So you asked what not to buy. You got some good and solid advice from knowledgeable people here regarding what works great including OpenBSD coverage. Then you informed us all you disregarded that completely for your own choice and this more and more