mostly harmless

Hardware

• 15" screen
• webcam
• modem
• LAN
• keyboard and surround, screen surround are white.
• 250GB hard drive: Toshiba MK25555GSX
• optical drive: HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-T50N

Minor issues:

• optical drive tray wouldn't open — needed to be pressed closed until it gave an extra click; seemed to be easier after a while.
• power button is slow to respond when running on battery only

Installation

Installed 32-bit Ubuntu 9.10 from the 'alt' CD

No problems.

On start-up, offered the slmodem driver as a 'restricted driver' (see below).

Sound

aplay -l lists the sound chip as ALC622 rev1

typewriter computer sample keyboard