Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:33:47 +0100 From: Radek Kozlowski <radek@raadradd.com> To: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experiences with HP, Compaq? Message-ID: <6262982463.20031223213347@raadradd.com> In-Reply-To: <87zndjidfr.fsf@lomond.aae.uiuc.edu> References: <87zndjidfr.fsf@lomond.aae.uiuc.edu>
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On Tuesday, December 23, 2003, 7:42:00 PM, D. Michael McFarland wrote: > Occasionally I drool over the laptops in places like Best Buy, > thinking, "If I had just one more computer, I wouldn't have to wrestle > VMware...," etc., etc. Lately, the prices and specs have improved to > where I may finally be willing to put my money where my mouth is. It > looks like about US$1150 (less rebates if I'm quick about it) would > get me either a Compaq Presario 2195US or an HP ze4560us, so I'm here > to ask if anyone can support my pipe dream by affirming FreeBSD runs > reasonably well on either of these machines. I'm running 5.2-CURRENT on HP Pavilion ze4430us without any significant problems. About two weeks ago my touchpad finaly worked with ACPI enabled. The built-in wireless card works with ndis driver, sound works fine as well (pcm(4)). XFree86 uses vesa driver, but still I can watch dvds and divx movies. Network card (sis(4)), usb and firewire work as well. The only thing that's not recognized at the moment is the Conexant modem, but I don't need it, so I didn't care that much. For this price (~$900) it's probably the best one I could buy. -Radek
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