Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:12:52 +0000 From: Craig Butler <craig001@lerwick.hopto.org> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS? Message-ID: <1298092372.2537.7.camel@main> In-Reply-To: <ijngt8$kmp$1@gal.iecc.com> References: <20110218032357.GD2049@comcast.net> <3380813072-1551442120@intranet.com.mx> <20110218234413.GA84864@guilt.hydra> <19807.16937.790123.255479@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <ijngt8$kmp$1@gal.iecc.com>
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On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 04:28 +0000, John Levine wrote: > > At one point, Thinkpads - particularly the T4x series - were > >_the_ recommended used laptop. While it's been a while since i > >looked into this formally, my grapevine says the quality went > >downhill quickly after Lenovo bought IBM's pc hardware division. > > I'm typing this on my Lenovo X200 running 8.1. For the most part it > works quite well and the quality seems similar to my previous IBM X40. > > The worst annoyance is that the sound volume is quite low, and I > haven't yet figured out what to tweak to fix that. It has bluetooth > and a fingerprint reader, neither of which I've set up, mostly out of > lack of interest. > > R's, > John > Lenovo destroyed thinkpad in the t410i range; * stupid flimsy/flexi keyboard with massive delete and escape keys (why ???) * gobi 2000 3g connectivity, cant get it working on anything none M$ * cut the number of leds, power led no longer turns orange or flashes, no caps/scroll/num leds (again why ???) * stupid windows 7 stickers. Overall not impressed... /Craig B
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