Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 23:58:44 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: "Kiffin Gish" <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> Cc: 'Matthias Schmidt' <schmidtm@mathematik.uni-marburg.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nice compact lightweight powerful laptop ... Message-ID: <20060402235844.5ba5279b@vixen42.vulpes> In-Reply-To: <002801c64f75$a46ef1a0$2101a8c0@ZGISH> References: <20060324141826.GA55317@staatsfeind.org> <002801c64f75$a46ef1a0$2101a8c0@ZGISH>
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:03:31 +0100 "Kiffin Gish" <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> wrote: > The Thinkpad T and X series look sweet, but very pricey also. I was > looking more around the $1000 range... If 1400USD is in your range, I've been happy with my Toshiba Tecra M3. Good graphics also. Runs Quake 4 nicely and outside of issues in the iwi driver on releng_6, it works absolutely lovely. > -- > Kiffin Rex Gish > Gouda, The Netherlands > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > > Matthias Schmidt > > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 15:18 > > To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Nice compact lightweight powerful laptop ... > > > > > > He, > > > > * kiffin.gish@planet.nl wrote: > > > Since I will be travelling alot in the near future, I have been > > > looking into purchasing a nice, fancy laptop dedicated to > > > running FreeBSD 6.x and the Gnome desktop. > > > > > > It needs to be light-weight and portable for in the plane, > > > support wifi, have a long battery life, relatively fast > > > graphics, > > 1GB memory > > > and around 2Ghz fast. > > > > I recommend a IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T or X series. > > > > > There are so many choices out there that I do not know > > where to start. > > > Any suggestions would be helpful. > > > > > > Is there a known list somewhere of supported/tested laptops? > > > > Have a look at the FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List: > > > > http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
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