Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 13:12:32 +0300 From: Aleksander Alekseev <afiskon@devzen.ru> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended laptop for FreeBSD 10.2 Xfce workstation? Message-ID: <20160328131232.010ae86b@fujitsu> In-Reply-To: <56F84093.3030106@holgerdanske.com> References: <56F84093.3030106@holgerdanske.com>
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Hello, David Take a look on Fujitsu laptops, e.g. E733 (there are also many other models like this one). These concrete model seems to satisfy your requirements. Currently I'm running Ubuntu on it. But I don't see a reason why there should be any problem with FreeBSD since hardware seems to be compatible. Not sure regarding Wi-Fi though, but there are cheap and very small USB adapters like TP-LINK TL-WN725N and Edimax EW-7811Un that could solve this issue, see this list: https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html Anyway you can usually check a laptop before paying for it. Also consider Apple laptops. Please note that you should use CURRENT branch use Intel GPUs at maximum especially OpenGL capabilities. There is also sometimes tricky to boot FreeBSD installer on todays laptops because of features like Fast Startup and Secure Boot. Here are some hints that can help you with that: https://goo.gl/7HAaDE Also I would like to recommend these articles: * https://unrelenting.technology/articles/freebsd-on-the-thinkpad-x240 * http://eax.me/freebsd-on-desktop-v2/ (use Google Translate) -- Best regards, Aleksander Alekseev http://eax.me/
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