> These guys are selling windows preloaded netbooks and that
> increases
> the price around 3000 or so. Some of them are giving
> freedos.
>
> HP Mini Laptop is for 16K in Delhi. It comes with FreeDOS,
> has 1 GB
> DDR3 RAM and 160 GB HDD .... but i could not find FreeBSD
> support/performance report anywhere.
>
> Can FreeBSD foundation help the users in this regard? Is
> there
> something like 'BSD Ready' mark for hardware products?
I have Samsung N148 with me and running openbsd 4.8-current on it and works
pretty well.
It came with:
OS: FreeDOS
RAM: 1GB DDR2 SDRAM
CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.67 GHz
Keyboard is nicely done given small form factor (some brands have keyboards
with 'F1-12' operated by 'Fn' key which I personally don't like as it means
more key strokes in unix).
OpenBSD (never used PC-BSD so your observation might differ) works great and to
sum it up here's the breakup:
1) ACPI/APM works great (lid functionality and suspend) (sleep states S0 S3 S4
S5).
2) Wifi works great (Atheros AR9285).
3) Display works great (X doesn't {only vesa} work in 4.7 so had to switch to
4.8current {Intel chipset was not supported in 4.7} )
4) Ether works great (Marvell Yukon 88E8040).
5) Trackpad works but with limited functionality ( no scroll ) {truly speaking
i never tried enough to make it work}
6) Battery roughly 4-5hrs though never measured it but it should be give or
take 1hr.
7) Webcam works (Namuga. WebCam SCB-0340N).
In all it works great but if I were you I would have tried booting it up with
an usb at vendors place before making up my mind.
--EOM
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