i) Sleep. Hibernation worked out of the box on my Lenovo, but “suspend” did not. I fixed “suspend” but it took me a while, and some arcane commands. I like ‘hibernate’ a lot, as it uses no power while the machine is asleep. It’s quick to shut down, but almost as slow as a boot to start (the advantage being though that your application session is restored). ii) Fonts. You need to do some font customization if you want your screen to look as nice as a Windows or Mac screen. I installed the Microsoft fonts, and use MS’s Tahoma font now. I also customized my Emacs fonts (which may or may not be important to you ;) iii) External projector/monitor. Works for me only if I hibernate/suspend the laptop, plug it in, and then turn it back on. At some point, I’ll try to make it work properly, as I suspect it would if I tried a little harder to make it work. iv) Wireless. If you need to connect to an Apple Airport network using encryption, you need to know the “network equivalent password” for the specific network (not just the ASCII WEP key). You can’t get that from a Linux (or Windows) machine - you need a Mac. Once I did that work, and entered the WEP key, this connection just worked (I’m using it right now). I’ve travelled extensively with this laptop, and never had any problem with any other network than encrypted Apple Airport networks, which also give Windows conniptions…
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