Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:50:05 -0400 From: Mike Jeays <mike.jeays@rogers.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netbooks & BSD Message-ID: <201010192250.06485.mike.jeays@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <20101020022946.GA23035@thought.org> References: <20101004233302.GA62267@takino.homeftp.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1010191448390.6689@wonkity.com> <20101020022946.GA23035@thought.org>
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On October 19, 2010 10:29:46 pm Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:53:30PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > >El d?a Sunday, October 17, 2010 a las 12:17:16PM -0600, Warren Block escribi?: > > >>On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > >>>Any alternative netbooks outside Asus which run FreeBSD? > > >> > > >>Of course. The Acer Aspire models vary, but the D250 is nice. > > > > > >Just to make sure: you mean the "Acer Aspire One D250" netbook? But this > > >seems to have a SATA hard disk, or are there models out with SSD? > > > > Mine has a SATA drive, but there shouldn't be any reason it couldn't > > use a SATA SSD in that form factor. I should add that just over the > > last couple of days, my D250 has started to panic at random times. > > That's new, and I don't know what's causing it. Given that it was a > > scrap machine I repaired, it may be hardware failure. > > > > >In any case, it sells for around 300 euro (around USD 380) and seems to > > >be an alternative as getting my Eee PC 900 repaired for the same price > > > > Now that the netbook craze is over, there are quite a few > > lightly-used ones for sale, often around $150 here. Look around > > before buying new. Relatively older models like the D250 may be > > better for FreeBSD, because they have Intel video that works with > > the accelerated xorg driver. > > $150 is seriously in my price range [!] But what about the > optical drive? If I can buy one on sale and install FBSD from a > CD or DVD, do all optivcal drive fit all notebooks? > > (( I remember seeing ads on amazon.com saying that "people who > purchased this notebook have also bought:) > > With a few things that I probably will buy. An optical, a 16 or > 32G SSD ... &c.) So if there is a fire-sale at Costco or > <<wherever>> for an HP 9" or 10 Atom notebook, will I be able > to use another vendor's optical drive? > > gary > > PS: I really _was_ current on hardware stuff. Back in the VAX > 780 days :-) > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I would expect a USB optical drive to work. I plugged an old DVD drive into one of those boxes that hold an IDE hard disk and plug into a USB port, and it worked fine on my (Linux) ASUS EeePC 1000. It looked pretty amateurish, but it did work. -- http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca
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