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

— eric gerbier 2009/09/18 13:53