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Acer Aspire 5633

Yes, the installation of my replacement laptop is now almost finished. Surely, it will still miss installed packages by this is only a matter of time.

My new laptop is a really nice pieace of hardware, and at the time of writing everthing I need for daily use is working smoothly -- under Linux. But details later this article.

So lets start with an short description of the laptop. Unfortuantly, the acer site make intense use of sessionids and some other weirdies, so I cannot link to the manufactors homepage. So here is just a quick summary about the hardware in my acer aspire 5633-200 Wlmi:

• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo (T5500), "Centrino". 1.6GH FSB 533MHz
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 graphics chipset
  
• 2GByte of DDR2-Ram, (using all of the two memory slots.)
• 160GB SATA harddrive
• DVD dual layer multinorm burner (DVD+-R(W), DVD-RAM)
• 15.4" wide screen LCD, "Acer CrystaBrite" Technology, with a physical resolution of 1280x800 pixels
• Intel "ipw3945" 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN (note that is supports "802.11a"!)
• Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet
  

I you also looking for this laptop, be advised that it comes in more than one flavour, and it seems that they also changed specification till they released it. So there is e.g an model with less RAM and less storage, and there a reports, that the graphics used is an Nvidia chip. 

I will write about the installing debian in a later article, as I also want to write about the encryption of the main harddrive.

As a summary for now: Everything tested up to now works fine, even the synaptics PS/2 touchpad works perfectly: Just make sure you don't press Fn+F7 instead of Atl+F7 for switching to the X-Server: This would disable the touchpad. This costed me some hours.