Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:41:52 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations? Message-ID: <200409272341.53423.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040927111438.GA865@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20040927111438.GA865@genius.tao.org.uk>
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--nextPart1927864.blsSSbLlKi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:44, 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. > > 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 more > recent models fair better with power management support, etc. > > Any helpful hints would be gladly received. I have an Inspiron 8600 which is pretty nice. Loads of stuff in it, but kind of heavy if that bothers you. I use ndis for the Intel wireless, and the nvidia binary drivers for the vi= deo=20 card (although the new ones don't work yet..) The 1920x1200 screen is really nice :) Here is a page on it.. http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/I8600/ Note that it won't do better than S1 suspending (hangs or reboots) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1927864.blsSSbLlKi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBWB+p5ZPcIHs/zowRAuNzAJ9ib2aJXctc6PxOcZFfiSdLu+/FSgCdGxfP tUdzPKKLgXi/aQLnzeP+yvg= =TDC6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1927864.blsSSbLlKi--
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