From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 24 01:02:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A4E316A402; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:02:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alex.kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net (vms044pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C62D13C4B6; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:02:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alex.kovalenko@verizon.net) Received: from [10.0.3.231] ([70.21.156.216]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JDY000NQ07E48Y4@vms044.mailsrvcs.net>; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:02:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:01:57 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" In-reply-to: <20070223055138.GA9545@laverenz.de> To: Uwe Laverenz Message-id: <1172278918.768.9.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <45DACA30.8010107@freebsd.org> <45DB2DB5.8080409@lovetemple.net> <45DD62B8.5060903@freebsd.org> <20070223055138.GA9545@laverenz.de> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations for 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:02:31 -0000 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: > 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