I use Kubuntu on my desktop and am considering purchasing a new portable. I am thinking of an Acer S3-891 Ultrabook which runs on an Intel i5 3317U. I am aware that some processors for ultrabooks and netbooks have reduced instruction sets, and, whilst they are Windows8-friendly, will not necessarily support other operating systems. Has anyone experience of running Kubuntu on the Acer or indeed any laptop with a screen <14 ins?
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I have run KDE interface on two netbooks. The key item is the vertical resolution. If the vertical resolution is greater or equal to 768 it seems to be the magic number. When I had a 600px resolution I spent a lot of time moving windows about to click buttons. Even the install was difficult.
The fans tended to be noisy and had to have custom drivers installed. Although that is probably less of an issue with the current netbooks
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