{"id":470,"date":"2009-07-19T11:35:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T15:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:30:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T16:30:46","slug":"ubuntu-dual-boot-with-acer-aspire-5516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/19\/ubuntu-dual-boot-with-acer-aspire-5516\/","title":{"rendered":"Dual boot Acer Aspire 5516, Vista and Ubuntu 9.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<abbr class=\"unapi-id\" title=\"\"><!-- &nbsp; --><\/abbr>\n<p>This week I purchased an Acer laptop from Micro Center for $299.  The model was: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microcenter.com\/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0312136\">Aspire 5516-5474<\/a>.  It came with an ATI video chip set (ATI Radeon Xpress 1200), a 160 gig hard drive, an 8x DVD, an SD reader, 2 gigs of RAM, a 15.6 inch LDC Monitor (16:9 1366&#215;768), and an AMD Athion 64 processor (the TF-20).   The installed software was Microsoft Vista, home basic.    I installed Ubuntu 9.04* to dual boot.  It worked without any problems.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The computer case is made out of plastic, and feels light for its size.  At (the time,) $299 seems like a pretty good value.  This is a slow processor, however.  Amazon sells the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Acer-Aspire-5516-5063-15-6-Inch-Laptop\/dp\/B002AULXNQ\">Aspire 5516-5063<\/a>, which looks like the same thing except with a slightly larger hard drive, for $448, so it pays to shop around.  <\/p>\n<p>One issue that I did not care much about concerns the Windows Media player.  I had trouble getting the sound to work.  But I had no problem using the sound for Netflix and other streamed video in Vista.  In Linux, the sound worked fine, but Netflix does not work for Linux, yet.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 9.04 recognized everything, including the screen, the wireless, the DVD player, the SD card reader, etc. <\/p>\n<p>* I have only tried the 32 bit version.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>July 2011 Update.<\/strong>  <\/strong>   To be honest, when running Vista, this laptop was really slow, and not much fun to use.  Even with a regular version of Ubuntu it isn&#8217;t that quick.  But I recently installed Lubuntu 11.04, and it made a world of difference.  The computer actually felt pretty responsive.  If you have one of these laptops, definitely try it with Lubuntu. <\/p>\n<p>Here is the CPU benchmark test for TF-20 processor:<a href=\" http:\/\/www.cpubenchmark.net\/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+TF-20\"> http:\/\/www.cpubenchmark.net\/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+TF-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I purchased an Acer laptop from Micro Center for $299. The model was: Aspire 5516-5474. It came with an ATI video chip set (ATI Radeon Xpress 1200), a 160 gig hard drive, an 8x DVD, an SD reader, 2 gigs of RAM, a 15.6 inch LDC Monitor (16:9 1366&#215;768), and an AMD Athion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[56,54,55,51,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}