Acer unveils world's first Ion 2 netbook

Hi guys,

I got an acer aspire 5755G with Nvidia GT630M optimus technology and want to make use of it as that is my last job to get my acer to a complete ubuntu laptop.

NVIDIA Optimus takes GPU changing tech out of the hands of the user making notebooks with integrated and discrete GPUs much easier to use.

Hello,

I have recently got a new Acer Aspire One 756-877 netbook and did a hard disk installation of BT5r2 32-bit and later upgraded to r3.

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Using a freshly burned DVD, I installed CentOS 6.3 on an Acer Aspire One D257 netbook that sports an Intel Atom N570 CPU and 1GB RAM, and a 250GB 5400RPM SATA HDD. The installation went on fine. Th... [by zackp]

This tutorial is going to show you how to turn on/off the discrete nVidia graphics card on nVidia Optimus Ubuntu laptop. For now, nVidia Optimus doesn’t support Linux system.

I"m booting BT5 RC2 and everything works fine. Thanks you guys for this awesome distro.

Processor and Memory: Intel® i3-2350M, 2.3 GHz 3 MB L3 Cache 6 GB DDR3 SDRAM

Drives: 500 GB SATA, 5400 rpm DVD±RW SuperMulti drive 2-in-1 card reader

Display and Graphics: 15.6-in.

Ok, i had my acer zg5 netbook in parts as I was installing a wifi card out of a macbook pro. that part worked great, heaps better signal and fast too.

Then... for some reason I tried plugging in the mac's laptop display panel.

Acer is readying the Acer Aspire One D260, a dual-boot netbook running Windows 7 and Android on an Intel Atom N450 or new DDR3-ready N455, with a claimed eight hours of battery life.