notebooks in 2015

computerworld has an article about the personal computers in the next decade. i am underwhelmed by the conventionality of the designs shown, and the utter lack of new ideas for interaction between the user and the computer.
i don’t want to get in a chair and behind a desk only to be able to use a [...]

vgn-sz55b

Summary of the linux install:

xorg.conf.stamina
xorg.conf.speed
/proc/config.gz (for gentoo-sources 2.6.24-r9), as I gave up on ubuntu

Not working:

Thumbnail reader (sony uses proprietary key in the hardware)
Felica card
Adjusting monitor brightness
Hard disk active protection

Have issues:

Camera quality is way inferior to the quality available with the windows software
iwl3945 fails randomly
on ubuntu kernels, there is bug 177895, which makes cpu drain power [...]