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It finally arrived, my 12.1 inch, 4 pound, Lenovo v100. Its a small little thing (although not nearly as small as my old Fujitsu) with a nice bit of power.

I easily installed Kubuntu (Dapper) and everything works out of the box (this includes X.org, sound, bluetooth, wireless, function buttons, and suspend/resume). There is also a 5-in-1 media card reader which is recognized and supposedly supported as of 2.6.17, but I have not tested it yet. I did have an issue upgrading to the latest kernel which renders my wireless card useless. This is a known problem, but I haven’t gotten around to fixing it, instead I just reverted back to my last known working kernel (2.6.15).

Have I named it yet? Of course! Say こんにちは (kon’nichiwa) to Takochi (photo 1, photo 2, screenshot). This is the first time I have given a female name to any of my computers. It comes from the name of the subject in a cyberpunk graphic I found a lot time ago and did some photoshop work on (the original site I found it on is long gone, and I have failed to find out who the original author is).

There really isn’t much else to write, Kubuntu Linux works out of the box with 0 tweaking. For those of you who want hardware specs, here are the basics:

• Intel Core Duo T2300 1.66GHz/2M L2 cache 667MHz/1024MB RAM
• RealTek 10/100 Ethernet (use RTL8139)
• Intel Pro/Wireless ABG (use ipw3945)
• Intel Graphics Media Accelorator 950 (use Intel i810)
• Intel HD Audio Controller (use ALSA emulation)
• Ricoh R5C822 Media Card Reader (not tested)
• USB, Bluetooth, Firewire (standard drivers)

Hurrah!