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2010.next: a better netbook for meetings

Thursday 24 September 2009 - Filed under Process

I recently borrowed one of the 10″ netbooks that came out this year, and tested Build 123 on it. Here’s a shot of Toshiba’s sleek black NB205 displaying a clean Device Driver Utility run.

p nb205 2010.next: a better netbook for meetings

The NB205 has a keyboard on par with the r500 I use regularly—large for a netbook—and has a superior trackpad. Suspend-resume is reliable; compiz runs well; the extra vertical inch means fewer application compromises over last year’s netbook crop. (For instance, rather than rearranging panel to the sides, use of gnome-panel‘s auto-hide feature is enough to let applications run well when maximized.)

If I don’t have to give it back, it’ll be my new “netbook for meetings”.

Netbook styling credit to Dave Powell.

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2009-09-24  »  Stephen

  • http://blogs.sun.com/chile Felipe Cerda

    Very cool netbook!

  • http://myunix.org che kristo

    Now if only we could order these with OpenSolaris by default!

  • Fisher Price

    It’s hardly "sleek" with that much bezel around the screen, it looks more like one of those toy laptops you’d buy for your kids.

  • http://blogs.sun.com/dp Dan "not Fisher" Price

    @fisher – But for $341 on Amazon, it’s easy to overlook its non-Eamesian styling. Actually from the product shots I see on Amazon, it does look quite slim and the design is tidy overall.

  • Pablo

    I have an NB too (NB200-SP2904) with b123, but it doest’t have the suspend option.

    And I have not seen a place to enable it.

    What is the difference?

    Please take a look on other comments about the machine on:
    http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=112293&tstart=0
    and
    http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=11630

    Anyway the machine is cool and I’m quite happy with it.

    regards
    - Pablo

  • http://blogs.sun.com/sch Stephen

    @Pablo: You need to add a line or two to /etc/power.conf. I believe "S3-support enable" and "autoS3 enable" are the necessary lines.

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