Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:54:12 +0200 From: "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommendations for laptop and desktop Message-ID: <20110712175412.74091e99@dijkstra> In-Reply-To: <20110712151858.GA1091@faust> References: <20110712151858.GA1091@faust>
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:18:58 +0200 Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs> 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..." > 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? > Best regards all > > Zoran > Perhaps you already know this site (http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/)? The comment parts sometimes include relevant info, such as "fan alwas running". As to the last question, I am rather (very) fond of my Thinkpad R500 running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE. Thinkpads in general seem enjoy a high reputation ... Cheers, -- Christopher J. Ruwe TZ GMT + 2
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