Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 18:35:10 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sony VGN-A 197XP? (Re: Laptop recommendations?) Message-ID: <20041208183510.GM1291@genius.pact.cpes.susx.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20041001105544.GG840@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20040927193236.GA39950@laptoxa.toxa.lan> <20041001105544.GG840@genius.tao.org.uk>
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--3xQkynibq3FKlJyM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:55:44AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > Because I'm a mug, and that they look nice, I'm considering a new Vaio. > The model that has me wetting myself in anticipation is that VGN-A > 197XP, which has a 1.8GHz centrino with a 2mb cache, a 17" 1920x1200 > screen and an 80gb harddrive. It's lovely. >=20 > The big question is how well does FreeBSD run on it? I absolutely need > to have suspend/resume support as it only has a single battery with a > life of around 2.5 hours (no second battery slot :(). >=20 > Has anyone tried FreeBSD on anything like this? What's the chances that > the wireless 802.11g and bluetooth will work? A followup. My girlfriend went to the US recently and brought me back the american version of this one the VGN-A290. It's lovely and under 5.3 the power management works wonderfully :) Thanks ACPI guys. Joe. ps. it's not quite the same spec as the VGN-A 297, missing the blue tooth basically :(. Still it's pretty nice though :). --=20 Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D An eclectic mix of fact an= d theory. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --3xQkynibq3FKlJyM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkG3SV0ACgkQXVIcjOaxUBa+DQCggDuJJbLAGHs8x3Va8KByCv7x ANIAoJD8zcRQtmHmhkV9cp/vHlE/ByXm =Ph4r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3xQkynibq3FKlJyM--
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