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Netbook or Ultraportable?

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Here is a quick peek at my new Lenovo Thinkpad x120e. It has an 11.6″ screen, full sized keyboard dual core AMD e350 1.6 GHZ APU with a Radeon HD 6310 on the chip. The thing is a beautifully simple matte black all around which helps me to avoid annoying finger prints.

Some other features are that it has a full sized keyboard at it’s ultra small size and boats 1366 x 768 resolution. It’s performance completely blows Netbooks out of the water and is comparable to other larger laptops. For the size/performance and simple beauty of the machine I feel like I got a good deal.

On the software side I have it running Ubuntu 11.04 for when I am working on personal stuff but I also can boot into Windows 7 where I have a meager install just for work to keep that end more secure.

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Here are my Desktop and Netbook with Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Desktop.

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Here are my Desktop and Netbook with Unity:

My Desktop

My Netbook

On both:

  • Removed some of the icons I don’t use.
  • Whitelisted some notifications/applets.
  • Added launchers for ssh quicklaunch, ETQW and some others.
  • Added submenues to libreoffice and file launcher.
  • Added Conky.
  • Added theme, transparency and changed size of launcher.
  • Added Reddit Lense
  • Removed Desktop Switcher (Not shown)

Shading is off on Desktop screenshot for some reason!
UPDATE: Confinity now let’s you easily perform all the tweaks that I have.

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LUGIE October

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I’m at the Linux Users Group Inland Empre (LUGIE) meeting. I’d like to give a little update on what we have been disscussing.

So far we disscussed the new Ubuntu 10.10 coming out tomorrow. There isn’t too much exciting going on there.

The most interesting things are the updates to Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE) and the addition of commercial software to the software center.

Currently UNE doesn’t work on my Aspire One due to issues with the driver and acceleration.

The next presentation that was dived into was concerning the highly hackable Arduino board. Conveinently Ubuntu 10.10 has the software in the repos to program with it out of the box.

The presenter has shown us his project and his attempts to create a plain interface using gcc to code as opposed to the pretty IDE it uses by default.

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