Hi,
Got kalyway 10.5.2 to install, it's a simple process. Followed most of MSI hints. I couldn't a bunch of things to work yet: wifi, sound, webcam (Acer Crystal? May it really be Acer's?) and card reader. Couldn't get sleep to work either. Tried both vanilla and sleep kernels. With the sleep kernel USB seems to have some problems though.
Speed seems really reasonable and at par with Linux. However, there is this stuttering behavior seen also with XP accessing SSD. There's some strong contention on SSD access that might be caused by paging (although more than 50% of my current 1.5GB RAM was free) or atime fs access.
webdude12: is your 40GB drive SSD?
Cheers