Friday nights are not a good time to get your machine at a store. I found that out the hard way by having to go back the next day to trade in a dud. The machine ran for like an hour or so so then spun up real hard getting extremely hot in the process before shutting down to only run a few seconds after that before doing the same. Diagnosis was CRAP! Just had to wait till the next day, not fun. But heyo let’s go…….
Time to test the new laptop a Lenovo Y560 with Ubuntu 10.10 aubergine flavoured Linux. The kernel used in this version is

# uname -a

Linux coppermonkey 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:39:03 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Everything so far runs real well standard out of the box, all hardware has been found.
If you want to keep your original Windows7 install, don’t choose the” install next to another “ tab during the partitioning menu’s. Instead, choose to manually partition the freed up partition, you can easily free a partition by using the DE-fragmenting and partition tool that is native to the Win7 install.
Some people might not want to jump into a single Linux install right away either due to not voiding warranty, like always, check your warranty license first, then strap up your boots and go for the kill. Install like with most modern distributions is very pain-free. As a plus, the system after going into the desktop alerted that a Catalyst Radeon driver was readily available. I have been running the machine for a good 12 hours and it is a monster. Seven 1.600 MHz cores and 4gb of DDR3 memory you can’t go wrong with that. Yeah 2 hours on a 6 cell battery but hey… If your read my previous post on what I was using as a desktop machine, yes I caved for a brand spanking new laptop. I’m hoping this machine will serve me well the coming years with lots of hacking on Linux stuff and sharpening my Magic skills.