Anyone running a Serval?

[yogamatt1970]

I am very close to purchasing one. Just wondering if I could get some feedback on how they run.
Does the hardware work as well as promised?
Does suspend/hibernate work well?
Do they run hot? Are the fans loud?
How's the battery performance?
How do they feel - solid and reliable or cheap and clunky?
What's the monitor look like?
Also, any recommendations on how to customize one. I'm thinking of installing at least a gig of RAM, maybe more. I need a general purpose web surfing/email/development box which I can also use to play music and watch videos. No real gaming for me.
Any and all feedback appreciated.

[crichell]

I'm pretty sure we have customers in here with Serval's. You should here something soon :)

[yogamatt1970]

Hmmm, no more responses.
Oh well, I'm probably going to take the risk and buy one anyway.
Crichell, I'm going to be calling your company sometime in the next week - I have a few more questions to ask.

[yogamatt1970]

BTW, just curious, are you selling a lot overseas? I imagine you could make a bundle of money selling laptops/desktops in Europe.

[crichell]

At this point it's tough to be competitive with the shipping cost - we are, however; negotiating new rates as we speak.

[yogamatt1970]

One more question - any plans to release a laptop with a screen resolution higher than 1200x800?

[crichell]

screen resolution higher than 1200x800?

Not at this point - we are evaluating some 17" lappies with a higher resolution.

[ubarry]

I'm late, but for what it's worth.

I'm happy with mine. I'm new to Ubuntu, coming from Fedora, but I'm getting used to it. I've moved one of my other machines here. I think Redhat shot themselves in the foot with Fedora, and its short window of updates. The biggest thing I miss is package selection on install, but you're getting a preinstalled system here.

But about the Serval:

It works fine. It's linux so I have a minor unsolved problem or two but mainly because I haven't had time to fix, both these are quirky and specific to my setup. I use this mostly mostly as a desktop I can move around easily, so it's usually plugged into a regular monitor and keyboard.

It's not hot, and very quiet (one of the reasons I wanted a laptop).

Suspend is OK

Battery life is short compared to some smaller machines with big batteries (I have a Dell X1 with a six-cell and it lasts 6 hours +), but that's not a fair comparison.

The monitor and graphics card are cool.

It looks and feels fine.

I have two gigs of ram in mine but this is a matter of what you do, not brand specific.

[yogamatt1970]

Great, thanks for the feedback.