Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:18:53 +0100 From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> To: Graham North <northg@shaw.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop choices Message-ID: <20051123131853.GA10817@poupinou.org> In-Reply-To: <4383C20E.20509@shaw.ca> References: <4383C20E.20509@shaw.ca>
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:12:46PM -0800, Graham North wrote: > Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck > winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP. > > Dell Latitude d600 with Radeon 9000? video, intel pro wireless > or > IBM R51 - Intel Extreme2, intel pro wireless. > The main differences will likely be the video and maybe bios, acpi...? > Can someone suggest to me whether these are both safe choices? > Am I better off installing 5.4 or 6.0? AFAIK there are still some issues with suspend-to-ram with the Dell (and I never liked the way they wrote their ASL, but it's more a style issue ;) On the other hand, I don't remember if the IBM R51 do have the same kind of issue with suspend-to-ram, though I'm pretty sure suspending to ram work for almost IBM thinkpads under FreeBSD. -- Bruno Ducrot -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care.
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