Recently I was looking for a laptop: the previous one I had (an Asus EeePC 900) was almost dead (the fan broke, and the idea of dismantling everything to get to it wasn’t appealing). When looking around, I had the following requirements: It needed to run on Linux well. No exceptions. _Portable: _ at home and at my workplace I have rather powerful machines, so a desktop replacement was not needed.

All right, it didn’t quite turn out as I had expected. This post wasn’t “soon"as I predicted originally. The reason? The fact that the video card I bought died after three days of usage, and getting a replacement took a while. Finally though, I have a functional system. It’s a Core 2 Duo CPU (7200) with 2 Gb of RAM and an ATI Radeon 3870 HD video card. I installed Linux on it, of course, but instead of Kubuntu I gave openSUSE a try.