older hardware

The hardware is just too old for today's standards. Unlike some almost identical acting Lenovo's IdeaPad G505 here is a rather clumsy device with its 4 cm thick in the closed state.
But the absolute About Hammer is the 10/100 Mbit Ethernet connection. Anyone who thinks that he can play data from another computer or server quickly so that, should stock up in advance with enough coffee or beer, set up a television and watch the last World Cup again. This takes namely and it is a complete mystery to me, that one one device, which one has missed at least two USB 3 slots including a half terabyte of internal disk to a gigabit - has waived Lan interface!

When weight is of course always cheated - you do so as if you do not need a charger. While the brick large debris are a relic of the past, however, the weight of this computer including charger and power cord is a whopping 2.7 kilograms, with Bluetooth earphones and pocket it is so loosely over three kilos. The travel so therefore also a grueling affair. The display is below average. While it reflects not as strong as some others where you confidently still take a can of black shoe polish must to black his own face, but when the sun need not mirror the styling more.

My experience with the machine refer to the operating system Ubuntu Linux (Trusty Tahr, version 2014.04, free of ubuntuusers.de or one of the many mirrors). It was immediately recognized and most hardware out of the box. The tedious driver reload of Windows 7 clients can not have durchexerzieren here. However, there were restrictions on the Bluetooth module:
It recognized and installed BT immediately, but the system was not a single pair another BT device. It just came up nothing. The cool "sports" earphones were missing particularly painful. They allied themselves otherwise on my Android tablet and Samsung smartphone in seconds.
At the function keys under Linux there is nothing to complain about: airplane mode, volume, screen brightness, touch pad switches, etc function properly without a single additional drivers to load.
Speaking Touchpad: I find it extremely convenient to be able to scroll with two fingers on Linux, instead of having to target the scrollbar with pinched tongue around a few lines to read on.
Wireless Laser Printer Brother HL-2135 has been detected in seconds, double-click on the recommended driver Brother-2130 Series) - Test page printing and that was it. The times where Windows users scoffed that Linux users still have to enter tar wtf miraculix on the command line to get something up and running are long water under the bridge. The location is indeed now reversed when one of my pre - reviewers and may believe its Windows 7 experience.
A function that since Windows 3.11 I lack, of course, I especially enjoy: The simple splitting the file manager on the screen: The screen with its 1366x768 pixels (16: 9) provides Linux plenty of room to work with T as a Web browser a tab to open which the source - can target window represent beautiful side by side with file operations. Whoever intends a trivial task in Windows, you must dig the right window from the stack first. Needless to say that the free office suite that all Microsoft has dominated and preinstalled Office formats, of course, just as harmless as the running-board pdf reader. Libre-Office also has a built-in PDF - conversion software here, which can create a pdf from any Office document, but that's not really here ...

Thus, the following picture emerges:

+ Clean running under Linux
+ Almost all hardware components are installed without extra effort out-of-the-box. No foraging on the net more!
+ Large, easy to read screen in the office / in-house ambient light conditions. (1366 x 768 pixels)
+ Smooth full screen - display of HD Videos
+ Pleasant keyboard
+ Rapid startup when the hybrid hard drive version
+ High Speed ​​Production
+ Exquisite collaborations with other computers in the network via Samba file sharing, both Wi-Fi (4 MB / s) as well as via Ethernet
+ 2x USB 3
+ Fast-Card Reader Interface
+ Excellent touchpad with support for two-finger scrolling (switched off)

- Relatively bulky appearance and gaining too much weight (about 3kg, including charger and power cord)
- Low battery (4 cells)
- Bluetooth driver not work under Ubuntu Linux out-of-the-box
- Laughable 10/100 Ethernet connection (8.6 MB / sec)
- Long battery charging time
- Poor viewing angles of the display