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| Name | Acer Aspire 7540 |
| Processor | AMD Turion™ II Dual-Core Mobile Processor M500 (1MB L2 cache, 2.20GHz) AMD Athlon™ II Dual-Core Processor M300 (1MB L2 cache, 2.0GHz) |
| Screen | 17.3” 1600×900 Widescreen |
| RAM | Up to 4GB |
| HDD | up to 500GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW Blu-ray |
| Graphics | ATI Radeon™ HD 4200 |
| 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 |
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Discussion
Runs great on Ubuntu 10.04. After initial system install you'll to install additional drivers for WiFi and GPU.
everything runs great (webcam, bluetooth etc…). the only glitch is that the button for turning off/on touch-pad will turn it off, but will is unable to turn it back on by pressing it again.