Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:10:44 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations? Message-ID: <41581154.9090804@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20040927111438.GA865@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20040927111438.GA865@genius.tao.org.uk>
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Josef Karthauser wrote: > My Dell Inspiron 5000e is getting a bit long in the tooth, and the > keyboard has just packed in :( so I'm in the market for a new laptop. > Does anyone have any recommendations for me? In particular I want a > working ACPI/suspend interface and this Dell has never been supported > well - fans on all the time, doesn't resume properly, etc. >=20 > My previous machine was a Sony Vaio which I loved, but was fairly > expensive and the repair support wasn't very good. Dell's support was > much better and I'd prefer a Dell I think, but I don't know whether mor= e > recent models fair better with power management support, etc. >=20 > Any helpful hints would be gladly received. Got and Acer Travelmate 8005Lmi here, works pretty well, and=20 sufficiently fast (make buildworld in ~35mins). Everything except suspend/resume works on releng_5/current as is, you=20 need ndis for the builtin Intel wireless though. Havn't played with the bluetooth stuff yet, so no idea there. Note that ACPI suspend/resume has been broken on several laptops since=20 early august, it worked just fine before that, so its a matter of our=20 ACPI support getting its thing together again... --=20 -S=F8ren
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