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KDE 4.0 on HP 2133 Mini-Note

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Submitted by beineri on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 20:34.

Last week HP announced it's Mini-Note PC with preloads of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. Our heros of the Mobile Devices Team have worked the last weeks on that. The Mini-Note is available in different configurations starting at $499 (that would be only 313 Euro if applied for Europe without surcharge). All editions share the form factor, the nearly full-size keyboard and the nice display (1280x768). So I had to lend one from Mobile Devices team and play with it. Smiling

The Mini Note comes with SLED 10, and SLED includes KDE as option. But that's only KDE 3.5 and that would be boring. So I started to install latest openSUSE Factory (almost 11.0 Beta 1) with our polished KDE 4.0 desktop on it:

HP Mini Note

KDE 4.0 is usable on this small edition (1 GHz and 512 MB). Only someone please fix the CPU and memory hog knotify4! Sad

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mouse pad

Submitted by r00b on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 19:34.

how can I get one of those KDE mouse pads?

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Mousepad

Submitted by beineri on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 19:34.

They are sold at every Akademy and bigger Linux event where KDE is present, dunno about a merchant.

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Web

Submitted by beineri on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 21:34.

There is much information on the web if you google for "2133" thanks to some ear.y leakage Eye-wink and first reviews with mainboard shots and benchmarks like this one.

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I blogged about knotify4

Submitted by paulpach on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 21:17.

I blogged about why knotify4 consumes so much memory.

Please see my article here:

http://paul-pach.blogspot.com/

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xine

Submitted by leos on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 21:59.

I had the same problem with a little app of mine based on phonon. According to Ian Monroe, xine allocates a bunch of memory for video playback even if you are only playing audio. This should be mostly fixed in the next version of xine (not entirely sure what version though). Using another phonon backend also solves this problem.

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Blog on PlanetKDE?

Submitted by vladc on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 21:43.

Thanks for the memory usage analysis. Paul, have you considered getting your blog syndicated on PlanetKDE?

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I have, I wrote to Chris

Submitted by paulpach on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 01:59.

I have, I wrote to Chris Lee, but I got no reply.

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IRC

Submitted by apokryphos on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 09:31.

Try asking again or pinging him on IRC, nickname is clee

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