acer_5735z

In march 2009, when my previous medion 9706 was robbed, I decide to buy a new laptop. After some search, I finally buy an acer 5735z :

• cheap,
• powerful
• a big keyboard, with a real numeric section,, nice to develop
• a big screen

• Processeur : Processeur Intel Pentium Dual-Core T3200 (2,0 GHz)
• Cache L2 : 1 Mo
• hard disk : 160 Go ATA
• ram : 3072 Mo DDR2 667 MHz extensible à 4096 Mo
• screen : 15,6'' WXGA (HD) TFT CrystalBrite 2, 1366 x 768 pixels
• graphic card : Chipset Intel GMA X4500 1759 Mo TGM
• dvd : DVD Dual Double Couche
• Modem : 56K
• Network : Gigabit Ethernet
• wifi : WLAN 802.11b/g/Draft-N
• operating system : Microsoft Windows Vista Edition Familiale Premium
• battery : Li-Ion 6 cellules
• size : 383 x 250 x 15 - 37 mm
• weight : 2,7 Kg

windows is installed on all disk, so the fisrt task is to make space for linux

• remove all un-nedeed microsoft softwares, and estimate vista disk size needs : I will keep it 60 Go
• resize the windows partition with the windows tool (you will have problems if you use tools such gparted on vista)
• install easyBCD

• now install linux (ubuntu ) from cd : just write boot loader on begin of partition, not on MBR !
• reboot on windows, and configure easyBCD

I want to install several linux, so I use 20 Go for each linux, 20 Go for shared data, 20 Go for backup

no problem to install ubuntu 9.04

no problem to install fedora 11

no problem to install mandriva 2009.1 (but 2009.0 did not recognize well the display)

no problem to install debian stable (lenny)

I can install freebsd 7.2, but the network chipset was not recognized. So I install it as an virtualbox guest.

— eric gerbier 2009/10/12 13:53