I'm still on a honeymoon with my Linux setup in this laptop. Despite
still having loads of trouble trying to make some parts work (the usual
suspects: modem, sound, usb, firewire, dvdrw...), I'm loving this Gnome
thingie more and more.
Today I decided I'd put my video card to work well under X - with
proper drivers, instead of the generic VESA one. After some two or
three google searches, I found that I needed to upgrade my X
installation. Fair enough.... I went to www.apt-get.org,
looked for a shiny experimental build of XFree86 4.3.0, and loaded it
up. Changing "vesa" to "radeon" in /etc/X11/XFree86Config-4 worked the
first time I tried it. Sah-weeet!
So, fellas, if you are willing to buy a new laptop, take a good look at
those Sony Vaios. So far, this PCG-GRV680 with Gnome 2 and Debian is
definitely beating the living shit out a PowerBook with MacOS X in
speed and I-can-get-stuff-done-with-it-ability, and costed something
like $500 less than an Apple laptop with roughly the same features.
PS: Ok, Mac zealots, you can start with the threatening and
finger-pointing now... but if you want to talk about eye-candiness, is
your mouse cursor translucent? I don't think so :)