Last week was a good week, my online stock trading profit bought me a nice 14" Core2Duo notebook, an HP 540, to help me do stock trading online more mobile-y.
It is my plan from the beginning to install Ubuntu on my laptop so I chose a non OS package. Which is a great money saver, because I don't want to spend money on something I won't use and I don't want to give Microsoft a false reason to boast on sold-and-then-uninstalled Windows.
If I am to use Windows, that will be my own decision not because it is force-bundled on me.
Now back to Ubuntu 9.04 on HP 540...the result was surprising me!

(yes it's a stock image, see mine below)

• fn+ keys work, the last time I used Toshiba L300+Ubuntu, this part won't work
• suspend works
• wi-fi recognized and can detect available wireless networks,
  
• sound works (now playing Hakuna Matata)
  
• touchpad and scrollpad work
  

And it does boot fast! This is just the beginning, mind you the Jackalope is still in Beta phase. So there's a lot to hope for in this release.

I'll update this post, just let me play with it a little more.


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