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[Francesco Vacondio <vacondio@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Mike and Didine, that was helpful: about 4h and not booting
Win is what I was hoping for.

Regards,
Francesco

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Didine <didinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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,
> --
> 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