another contender for a laptop is the hp tx2000z. it’s another deal i’ve spotted @ slickdeals a few times, $500 off any $1399 hp notebook. actually i guess it’s not a contender because i actually bought it before i finished this post.

amd turion 64 x2 dual-core mobile gold blah blah 2.4ghz, 2gb ddr2 mem, geforce 6150, touch screen & pen….

it looks like there might be some work needed to get the usb wacom tablet to work, but there’s always the 30 day return policy (i should re-read that) if i really can’t get it to work under ubuntu.

hp tx2000z reviews [ notebook review | hp | cnet | tabletpcreviews | computershopper | pcmag ]

surprisingly enough someone has already installed osx on the hp tx2000z:

one of the current quirks i have with my latitude d620 and ubuntu is when i either dock or undock i have to restart X11 in order to fix the second display (or remove it). yeah, kinda annoying… i should definantly take a closer look at xrandr to dynamically add or remove displays. [ here ]

update: apparently you have to use twinview vs xinerama…. booo.

hrm. i got tired of my wifi dropping again and did a quick search.

gutsy and intel 3945

… Once I am connected the card seems to work good. The problem is that I have to be very close (1 or 2 meters ) to the wifi access point for being able to connect. Once I am connected I can go further away without problems.

sure enough, just walk over to the access point and reconnect. boo. atleast it’s a relatively painless fix till i can figure out what’s going on.

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