Comments on: MacBook Air Alternatives http://www.thelinuxblog.com/macbook-air-alternatives/ The Linux Blog, General Linux, Shell Scripts Fri, 17 May 2013 01:16:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: TheLinuxBlog.com http://www.thelinuxblog.com/macbook-air-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-6038 TheLinuxBlog.com Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:43:02 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/macbook-air-alternatives/#comment-6038 as long as you do not accept the EULA, you are suppose to be able to. I have heard Amazon does honor this.

]]> By: william malo http://www.thelinuxblog.com/macbook-air-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-6037 william malo Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:24:54 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/macbook-air-alternatives/#comment-6037 oh really? you can return windows?
thats nice,
it can be such a pain in the ass to find a computer company that doesn’t preinstall windows.
so far I know: system76, apple, and zareason…

]]> By: TheLinuxBlog.com http://www.thelinuxblog.com/macbook-air-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-6036 TheLinuxBlog.com Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:16:04 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/macbook-air-alternatives/#comment-6036 @william – this was also posted in 2008. You’re right, its not a Linux specific computer, but neither is the Air. You can however refuse your Windows license and get the cost of Windows back. I have never heard of anyone doing that with Apple though.

]]> By: william malo http://www.thelinuxblog.com/macbook-air-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-6035 william malo Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:13:38 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/macbook-air-alternatives/#comment-6035 this is so dumb!
this computer comes with windows!!!!!!
it’s not a linux computer!!!!!
you might as well buy a macbook air and put linux on it =O

]]> By: Owen http://www.thelinuxblog.com/macbook-air-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-364 Owen Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:07:48 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/macbook-air-alternatives/#comment-364 On my Toshiba Portege 4010 I could get the battery life up to 6.5 hours using powertop, turning screen brightness down and making sure that my processor was always running in the most power efficient mode by eliminating all unneeded processes and kernel modules. It was down to 6.2W and still usable.

]]> By: Lore http://www.thelinuxblog.com/macbook-air-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-363 Lore Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:09:43 +0000 http://www.thelinuxblog.com/macbook-air-alternatives/#comment-363 I own a Portege R500 running openSuse 10.3. Actually, you can get 8 hours in Windows (XP, Wifi off, reading documents, 8.1 Watts power consumption!). In openSuse it needs 12.5 Watts, Wifi turned on 13.5 Watts, which give me a runtime between 4 and 5.5 hours (all, but one powertop tricks applied, USB_SUSPEND is not support by the suse kernel.). I’m wondering, where the 4.5 Watt gap to Windows is coming from??

In general, this is a true linux machine, i.e. almost all is running (except the sd-card reader, which should be fixed in the newest kernel and the transflexive display feature).

Read on my blog:
http://loblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/linux-on-the-toshiba-portege-r500-updates/

There are more “undocumented” nice features, for example you can charge the machine via USB (draining my iAudio X5 in USB host mode, hehe…)!

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