Check the screenshots to see how this embedded environment looks like (screenshot three, screenshot four). And with the widescreen LCD, it makes the experience truly pleasant. Then, you insert a PhotoCD, a CD, a VCD or a DVD, and the embedded software can play those immediately, while you can always keep an eye to your battery level. Instead of turning on the laptop using its power button, you press the little “P” button next to the power button and instead if loads in seconds Embedded Linux. Synaptics and XBindKeys, Java and Flash, Mplayer and XMMS mp3 capabilities are among the extra packages LinuxCertified is pre-installing to their laptops, so users don’t have to do extra work on their FC installations.Īnother great feature of this laptop is its dual function as a portable multimedia center/player: it comes with a Embedded Linux and PowerDVD. Regarding durability, the laptop’s battery time with Linux is about ~3 hours. Unfortunately, instant sleep/awake does not work. It takes about 25-30 seconds to wake up the laptop after suspension. The laptop came with preconfigured SoftwareSuspend2 (suspend to disk, via LinuxCertified’s own kernel version). LinuxCertified told us that Fedora Core 3 will get pre-installed on the laptop later in 2005 after further testing will take place in their labs. The LC2100 arrived with Fedora Core 2 pre-installed.
The machine also came with a mini-PCI wifi card, while it has the ability to expand itself with an optional Bluetooth module (picture one of the laptop, and picture two of the laptop and the powerbook next to each other). The screen has better angle/quality/brightness than my 12″ Powerbook’s. The screen is beautiful 12″ wide-screen LCD, with a resolution of 1280×800. Other hardware characteristics include 512 MBs of RAM, an 855GME Intel graphics card (dynamic allocation of VRAM), 40 GB of hard drive, a combo drive, a 4-in-1 reader, a pcmcia port, on board modem and ethernet card, a firewire port, USB 2.0 ports and more. The machine crunched 325 fps on glxgears *without* 3D acceleration. In fact, we were happy to see including a speed stepping utility by default, where the CPU would vary from 600 Mhz to 1.6 GHz depending on how much CPU power it’s needed at each given time. It is equipped with a Centrino CPU at 1.6 GHz with 2 MB of cache, making it a real speed demon. The laptop weighs only 4lbs (it’s lighter than the 12″ Apple Powerbook which weighs 4.6 lbs) making it an excellent mobile powerhouse. For more info and screenshots/images, read more. offers a solution for the users who require ultimate mobility: the LC2100 laptop loaded with the Linux of your choice.
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