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I recently replaced my old Asus M6V notebook with one of Asus’ latest 15,4”  widescreen  configurations, the M50Sa. My model has the Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 CPU, 3 GB of memory,  320 GB hard drive and the AMD/ATI Radeon 3650 graphics adapter (among other nifty  features).

Around the time the switch was made, I was a fairly eager gamer and also wanted something that could tackle Funcom’s latest project; Age of Conan. Of  course I didn’t expect my purchase to run the game at the highest possible settings, but I was confident it would deliver the performance I sought. And it does. I do not regret my choice one second, however, I’ve grown tired of gaming and that basically means the M50Sa sports a fairly higher specification than I currently need. My lack of interest in games also meant this was a good time to toss out the bundled Windows Vista and replace it with a good Linux distribution. Now, I don’t consider myself a Linux savvy person. Although I’ve made the switch from Windows several times and feel confident in my knowledge of the basics, I still wanted an easy to use distribution with as little need for extra configuration as possible. A couple of days before I decided to give Linux another shot, an article at the Norwegian technology site Hardware.no saw the light of day. It praised Mandriva for its ease of use, claiming it surpassed even Ubuntu in that particular area. With this at the back of my head, the choice was made. Besides, I’ve always been a sucker for KDE (and their fourth major release looked too slick to ignore with the new Plasma interface). Read more…