Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 15:33:43 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <4A194CB7.4080605@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905231808430.25076@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <4A17FFAF.4010400@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905231808430.25076@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar escribió: >> >> I'm about to buy a netbook, which: >> - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) >> - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) >> - has a normal HDD not an SSD > > point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway > in order of few watts, compared to CPUs taking 20-50W, excluding those > really "mobile". so >4 hours on battery&HDD seems possible. > Yes, but buying anything is always about compromises. Recent HDD models are pretty good and I don't need the most hi-end model with an extreme battery life, just a reasonable uptime with HDD. I think I'll go for the Acer Aspire ONE. I haven't got comments from these lists about that model in particular but I googled a bit and it seems mostly everything works with it. -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL: gabor@FreeBSD.org .:|:. gabor@kovesdan.org WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org
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