Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:24:55 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: stevefranks@ieee.org Subject: Re: anyone have a favorite laptop? Message-ID: <54db43990709251824p70adb1bcr59af175b3123687@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070925233531.GA10266@ayn.mi.celestial.com> References: <539c60b90709241100y212651cdj7caf3780e5035fb7@mail.gmail.com> <46F7FC68.1040207@math.arizona.edu> <46F7FF9D.6050000@acm.org> <20070925233531.GA10266@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
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I've been happy with FBSD on Dell Inspirons, although the newest I've used it on is an 8600 (it's what I'm using now). Some things have been problems (e.g. on the 7500 the sound input never had a driver, on the 8600 it took a while to find a driver that would make a working NDIS driver for the wireless). In general, if you get something new on the market you are far more likely to have trouble getting it working. In that regard in particular, I've had better luck with nVidia rather than ATI video (nVidia publishes FreeBSD drivers). - Bob On 9/25/07, Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: > >We have used Thinkpads for a long time. I am currently using a T60. > >Never had any problems. > > I used Thinkpads for about 10 years with various Linux systems. > My last one was a Thinkpad 600 which I used continuously from > August 1999 through March 2007 when I got a Mac Powerbook (now if > only I could run OS X on a Thinkpad :-). > > We have used a fair variety of Thinkpads with our auction > software for the last 10 years or so with excellent results. > > Bill > -- > INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC > URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way > FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 > > Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches. > Will Rogers > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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