Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:01:04 +1100 From: "David Dean" <dave.dean@gmail.com> To: "Norberto Meijome" <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop do you recommend? Message-ID: <163a4b210603132001j18a106e2xa693212db7cb11f4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060314113412.3470fde5@localhost> References: <20060313103240.ie1bevcdijs4coko@webmail.meijome.net> <20060314113412.3470fde5@localhost>
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mm, well I run a Dell 700m .. the widescreen 12" one with built-in wireless= . I'm using the fantastic iwi-firmware (so yes, the wireless works), and 855patch to get 1280x800 (the native res of the lcd) working. I have a very quick document on what I did to get that going at http://bratdot.info/cub1cle/projects/700m/ Accelerated graphics have never worked, but I just run Konsoles and Kmail .. so I dont miss it. The winmodem doesnt work, but thats about it. I havent missed anything else that didnt work 'out of the box' on 6. I ran 5.4 on there for a while as well, and the only thing I had to add was UHCI to the generic kernel (so I could do backups before the heat-death of the universe). YMMV, but they are cheap, small and light. -David On 3/14/06, Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 > freebsd@meijome.net wrote: > > > hi everyone, > > I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work > > WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: > > > > ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) > > PATA / SATA with no problems > > all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, > > touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course > > > > Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. > > > > >From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do > > >DELLs > > (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, > > but I don't think they are so well supported. > > > > Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :) > > > > Best regards, > > Beto > > What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? Thinkpads are a > bit pricey for me atm. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could > well be wrong...) > > Alternatively, has anyone got a model of *new* Toshiba laptops > fully working ? > > > thx > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > -- David Dean +61 402 55 6068 dave.dean@gmail.com
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