Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:45:01 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: "Achim Patzner" <ap@bnc.net> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions? Message-ID: <e71790db0807301745i60747da1vdbeb5650421b522f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8C2BF4B9-14CD-40EA-B22E-DBB7060BFE46@bnc.net> References: <1216910072.2251.8.camel@jill.exit.com> <op.uevchzc99aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <C5BCB173-CB87-4739-99CB-74CF7E76FBC4@ixsystems.com> <86y73j341e.fsf@ds4.des.no> <B057C10B-1269-4295-AA90-24E7AE9D9F08@bnc.net> <86bq0ftjf6.fsf@ds4.des.no> <8C2BF4B9-14CD-40EA-B22E-DBB7060BFE46@bnc.net>
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Achim Patzner <ap@bnc.net> wrote: > Am 30.07.2008 um 18:40 schrieb Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav: >> >> I don't understand what Macs have to do with this - we're talking about >> iX Systems's made-for-BSD laptop. > > The thread started with someone asking for a mobile computer that > would support FreeBSD sufficiently and nobody came up with something > fitting the bill (and being available somewhere). Considering the > picture you're seeing at any place where more than two hardcore Unix > users assemble you're seeing a majority of Macs. There has to be an > obvious reason for that... I tried to break that habit more than once > but right now the only comfortable way of running FreeBSD on a laptop > is VMware Fusion on a Mac. Reading this entire thread convinced me > even more. Please define "comfortable". I've been running FreeBSD 7.0 pretty comfortably on my HP nx6320 for several months now. I never attempted to use neither Bluetooth nor the fingerprint reader, so I don't miss them. The only real drawback I've found was that the memory card reader does not work. I also ran 8.0-CURRENT on a HP 6910p because 7.0 did not support the WI-FI card. -- Carlos Santos Working, but not speaking (or advertising) for HP :-)
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