From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 12 16:03:24 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43C721065672 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:03:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1temp.jnielsen.net (ns1temp.jnielsen.net [69.55.230.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 291038FC1B for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:03:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jnielsen.socialserve.com ([12.249.176.26]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1temp.jnielsen.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p6CFPrRX014588 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:25:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: John Nielsen In-Reply-To: <20110712151858.GA1091@faust> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:25:48 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <9A6EF07E-0EFF-4280-9BF7-B2D85C78A48F@jnielsen.net> References: <20110712151858.GA1091@faust> To: Zoran Kolic X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-DCC-sonic.net-Metrics: ns1temp.jnielsen.net; whitelist X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97 at ns1temp.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:03:24 -0000 On Jul 12, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Zoran Kolic wrote: > Comes a time to ask again and again the same question. > More I read, less I know. Just as I found that candida- > te for my new laptop, dell latitude 13 comes with anti- > glare screen and all hardware well supported, forums > reveal that it's 320gb hard drive heats a lot. It makes > vostro v13 better runner, but... > How sounds the idea to have a place on freebsd site for > such kind of data/wiki? Laptop recommendations should > include new models only, since older ones are not easy to > find in usable condition. Also, making a go for home > node, cold and quiet box, with parts fine under freebsd > is not so obvious. Especially for newer graphic chips. > It shows that my first idea to get cold phenom II on the > integrated mobo fails on almost all parts. > Yep, some kind of wiki, saying "phenom to use under 8.2 > to be cold and chip to find for amd mobo to take small > amount of power might be..." There is this list for laptops: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ > At last, sad thing is that only before mentioned dell > comes supported and with matte screen. What is the box > you would recommend, not going deep into past decade? See the recent thread on the freebsd-mobile list with subject "Laptop = recommendations?" JN