Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:01:57 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <alex.kovalenko@verizon.net> To: Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations for 6.x Message-ID: <1172278918.768.9.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <20070223055138.GA9545@laverenz.de> References: <45DACA30.8010107@freebsd.org> <45DB2DB5.8080409@lovetemple.net> <45DD62B8.5060903@freebsd.org> <20070223055138.GA9545@laverenz.de>
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On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 06:51 +0100, Uwe Laverenz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:30:32AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > The T42 is quite old. I imagine the technology's moved on a little bit > > (lighter, faster, etc). And separate wireless cards mean more tech to > > carry around, get lost, etc. > > The T41/42 have several advantages in general and especially for FreeBSD > users: <snip> > I have T41 and a T43p and I won't switch to a T60 as long > as it's not fully supported by FreeBSD. To be fair -- the unsupported things on my X60 are: -- SD slot. I know there is something in the works, but did not look at it. Probably irrelevant here as it does not exist on T41/T42. -- modem. As, I suspect, is the case with T41/T42. -- suspend. Which, AFAIK, is the mixed bag on T41/T42. The rest is working quite well. I did order it with the Atheros card though... and this brings us to the important point -- T41, T42 or X60 for that matter, are fairly broad designations, which cover serious variety of the wireless cards, network chipsets, video cards, LCD resolutions and CPU (if I am not mistaken latest X60 uses Core Duo 2, while mine -- model 1709-73U -- uses 32-bit Core Duo). One, really ought to look at the specific model's inventory. -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko
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