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Re: Questions from a possible owner

 

Hello Francesco,
To answer to your others questions :

> * What is (roughly) your battery life time?
With my Z21WN/B it's about 3h50 (wifi on)

> * How do the fans behave? (on most of the time? noisy?)
Yes, on most of the time but it's not annoying at all.

Regards,
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Didine Wayde.


On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Mike <michael.huettemann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Francesco,
>
> using the Z31 with Ubuntu 9.04 amd64 I never have to boot Windows
> before booting into Ubuntu. Using the patched sony_laptop kernel
> module and stamina mode I get about 4 hours on battery with WIFI an
> bluetiooth switched on.
>
> I never used the NVIDIA card yet and don't have the driver installed.
>
> Hope that helps
> Mike
>
> 2009/3/21 Francesco Vacondio <vacondio@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > first of all, thank you all for the work you're doing.
> >
> > I am very interested in buying a Z690, and my preferred distro since a
> > couple of years is Ubuntu. I have been reading the mailing list for a
> > while now, but I'd like to ask the following questions to any of you
> > using Ubuntu and the Z:
> > * Can you use *only one* graphic card without booting into Win?
> > Switching is not very important to me (but not booting Win is).
> > * What is (roughly) your battery life time?
> > * How do the fans behave? (on most of the time? noisy?)
> >
> > Thank you again,
> >
> > Francesco
> >
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