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| Name | Acer Aspire 4551 |
| Processor | AMD Turion™ II Dual-Core Mobile Processor P520 (2MB L2 cache, 2.30GHz) AMD Athlon™ II Dual-Core Processor P320 (1MB L2 cache, 2.10GHz) |
| Screen | 14” (1366×768) Widescreen |
| RAM | Up to 4GB |
| HDD | up to 320GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW |
| Graphics | ATI Radeon™ HD 4250 |
| Network | 10/100/1000 Ethernet Acer InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/n |
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Not Tested | |
| Screen | Not Tested | |
| HDD | Not Tested | |
| Optical Drive | Not Tested | |
| Graphics | Not Tested | |
| Sound | Not Tested | |
| Ethernet | Not Tested | |
| Wireless | Not Tested | |
| USB | Not Tested | |
| Card Reader | Not Tested | |
| Webcam | Not Tested |
You can enter any specific notes with running Linux on the Acer Aspire 4551 here.
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Discussion
Update Bios for 1.17 now work.
don't work, keyboard and touchpad.