I had the same experience with lack of options when I was looking for a laptop with Linux pre-loaded. R-Cubed had the widest selection and looked like the best deal to me. I bought an XW1550-L from them, not the model in the review. It cost more than building one myself, but I wanted a laptop to run out of the box and that's what I got. All the special laptop buttons function as advertised, and hibernate to hard drive works flawlessly. I've been very happy with it, no doubt in part because I maxed all the hardware upgrades except the CPU (went with 2.0 GHz).
Unlike the model in the review, mine doesn't have a problem scrolling in Firefox or OpenOffice and I don't need to use the 'Fn' key to use 'PgUp'/'PgDn'. Double-tapping didn't work though, and when I e-mailed tech support they responded the same day explaining that they disable it by default, and told me how to enable it.
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I had the same experience with lack of options when I was looking for a laptop with Linux pre-loaded. R-Cubed had the widest selection and looked like the best deal to me. I bought an XW1550-L from them, not the model in the review. It cost more than building one myself, but I wanted a laptop to run out of the box and that's what I got. All the special laptop buttons function as advertised, and hibernate to hard drive works flawlessly. I've been very happy with it, no doubt in part because I maxed all the hardware upgrades except the CPU (went with 2.0 GHz).
Unlike the model in the review, mine doesn't have a problem scrolling in Firefox or OpenOffice and I don't need to use the 'Fn' key to use 'PgUp'/'PgDn'. Double-tapping didn't work though, and when I e-mailed tech support they responded the same day explaining that they disable it by default, and told me how to enable it.
> All it would have to do is detect skin tone really. White == friendly, dark skinned = enemy insurgent.
I'm not sure the U.S. troops would go for this...especially the black ones.
Exactly. I haven't been running SETI@home to look for little green men. I think it'd be more interesting to find little green women.