Re: Recommendation for a netbook
On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 10:57:11 +0100
Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
> Nicolas George (12021-01-25):
> > I'll have to retire my current netbook soon. It was a Lenovo Miix
> > 3-1030 from 2015; it has a good screen but otherwise is complete
> > crap, with non-standard unsupported hardware and other drawbacks.
> >
> > I need a ~10 inches touchscreen, and I want a good-ish resolution
> > (≥1600). And I need it to be not expensive, because that's for
> > taking in transports daily and sometimes leaving unsupervised in
> > classrooms. Apart from that, having the wifi and sound controllers
> > supported by standard Debian kernels would be a significant
> > progress, and speed or memory are no issue. I don't care if the
> > keyboard can be removed to leave a tablet.
>
> I have chosen an Acer TravelMate Spin B3, it is la little more
> expensive than my comfort zone for this use, but not that much, and
> it seems satisfactory. Network, video, touchscreen and audio work out
> of the box. I have not tested suspend or hibernation, as I do not use
> them.
Probably good. I've had two netbooks and a laptop by Acer, and they
have all been good with Linux. Mostly, anyway. I've never used
hibernate, and suspend has a poor record. It generally works on stable,
it works on my current netbook (buster), apart from Samba sometimes
needing about five minutes to find the network shares. Suspend is
currently working on my sid desktop, which is an unusual state of
affairs. I gave up fixing it years ago, as suspend seems far more prone
to software rot than any other subsystem.
--
Joe
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