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Ubuntu Linux Feisty on Fujitsu Siemens Laptop

Wow today I am moerse impressed. I got a new Fujitsu Siemens laptop this morning. The only problem is that it came out of the box with very bad malware installed. It was so bad that this malware completely took over the system. It's called "Windows XP Media Centre Edition" or something. Even AVG anti-virus could not remove (or even detect) it. I thought this was a job for Linux so I immediately installed Ubuntu Linux 7.04 (a.k.a. Feisty Fawn) on it just now and it's working like a dream (well, almost).

My screen works perfectly. My sound works perfectly. My on-board Wifi works perfectly. The only real issue I had so far was that my sleep function seems to misbehave. My keyboard seems to be turned off and not turned on again when I need to unlock. Since I could not even escape to another virtual terminal I had to do a hard reboot by pressing and holding down the power button.

Otherwise, well done to the Ubuntu team. If you can now just get my power management sorted this will work really nicely. I know Mac users will probably think this is quite funny (I can already hear Stii laffing) but remember guys, our engineers do not have the luxury of restricting their software to only one hardware platform. Ubuntu will even run on your PowerPC systems hey. :P

4 Comments

Comment by Kim on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:20:00 PM

Beware of Fujitsu Siemens
Please people NEVER buy a computer from this company.

I've had a very bad experience with Fujistsu Siemens. I have an Amilo pi505, the dvd player wasn't working so they took it in for repairs, it came back with no change, the guarantee still had a few weeks left so I sent it off again and this time they kept the laptop and refused to give it back unless I paid for the repairs. After several weeks of "discussion" they suggested I just pay the money and then ask for a refund after.
I paid the money €113 and got the computer back, unrepaired, problem worse than ever and they refuse to give me a refund. Now the guarantee is finished so they are saying they don't have to repair it because it's no longer under warranty.

I wrote a letter to customer care a month ago which has been ignored.

I am now with a computer that is not fully functioning and feeling extremely stressed out and powerless.

I cannot recommend this company to anyone.

It's going to take a lot of yoga to overcome resentments about this company.

PLEASE DO NOT BUY A COMPUTER FROM THIS COMPANY.

Comment by Charl van Niekerk on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:40:00 PM

I am really sorry to hear about your bad experiences Kim, I haven't had any issues with my laptop yet so never needed to take it in for repairs, but I'm sure you can take legal steps against them if you like over in Europe if that was your situation.

Comment by christo on Friday, July 25, 2008 10:42:00 PM

I recently also had problems with Fujitsu-Siemens. It is funny that you installed Linux on your laptop - you just voided the warranty. Look at the warranty paper that you were given:

The Fujitsu-Siemens Computers Standard Warranty is void where:
- Original Operating System, Software and Applications have been reconfigured or corrupted.

- Devices and Device settings have been re-configured.

So it basically means that you can not install software, install linux or even change BIOS settings...