RE: Best laptop for Freebsd
I really can't say enough times how much I love my IBM T23, it's a couple of years old and runs both WinXP and FreeBSD 6.1 like a charm. I only had a bit of a problems configuring X, but that's part me for not having much experience and was easily resolved by doing some digging in Google. -Original Message- On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads Mine too. I have an R51. Man, that computer is awesome. No issues with it, etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
I have an acer travelmate 2420 that requires ndis for the broadcom 4318 wireless card but other than that it works in linux and freebsd nearly out-of-the-box. I got it from newegg for 500 usd too. I'm very happy with it. Abe CyberSword wrote: I really can't say enough times how much I love my IBM T23, it's a couple of years old and runs both WinXP and FreeBSD 6.1 like a charm. I only had a bit of a problems configuring X, but that's part me for not having much experience and was easily resolved by doing some digging in Google. -Original Message- On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads Mine too. I have an R51. Man, that computer is awesome. No issues with it, etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
Abram B OLson wrote: I have an acer travelmate 2420 that requires ndis for the broadcom 4318 wireless card but other than that it works in linux and freebsd nearly out-of-the-box. I got it from newegg for 500 usd too. I'm very happy with it. Abe CyberSword wrote: I really can't say enough times how much I love my IBM T23, it's a couple of years old and runs both WinXP and FreeBSD 6.1 like a charm. I only had a bit of a problems configuring X, but that's part me for not having much experience and was easily resolved by doing some digging in Google. -Original Message- On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads Mine too. I have an R51. Man, that computer is awesome. No issues with it, etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings, I recently got myself a Dell Inspiron 1501 with AMD dual core processor. Split HDD in half, XPPRO on one side, FreeBSD 6.1 on the other side. Only been tweaking with it for a couple of days now. Several issues seem to be on the plate. One is accessing the USB floppy drive. ??? 5 USB ports showing in dmesg, but none actually mount the drive when I attempt mount_msdosfs /dev/ /mnt ?? Very happy otherwise. DSL modem should be coming UPS in the next couple of days. At THAT time, I'm sure I'll have some more questions and comments. Thanks for listening, and any suggestions on the USB floppy drive access. Ciao, Z. Wade Hampton Twin Bridges, Montana ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On 11/28/06, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 November 2006, at 01:34, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads Mine too. I have an R51. Man, that computer is awesome. No issues with it, etc. Toshiba is good too, when you compare it's price with ibm, you'll find Toshiba with it's features is better choice. Thank you, -Abdullah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acers may or may not be a good choise. I have a friend who bought one and it was all out of the box. The two latest Acers I touched (one I bought and the other a friend bought it) showed some problems. ACPI implementation is horrible. I think they only tested it with Microsoft Windows. Some parts (ex: DVD drive) can be very poor quality parts and can fail reasonably quickly. Apart this everything works fine. Cheers -- Alexandre Vieira - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On 16 November 2006, at 01:34, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads Mine too. I have an R51. Man, that computer is awesome. No issues with it, etc. A quick search of the archives will bear out the popularity of that opinion. Be prepared first to investigate the hardware on any prospective model, second, evaluate the support with respect to each and every device, and finally, spend time and effort configuring things so things work just right, for increasingly large values of right. I believe the investment in time and effort pays off in all sorts of ways, but chances are you'll end up with a system that you'll consider indispensible and one that you'll know better than your girlfriend, wife, or whatever. I'll leave it to you decide whether that's a good thing. ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) badaboom who can help me ? i'm french and i don't know irc Paladine can't help you with the being french part, you are screwed their mate Phone Voice: +1 251 589 6348 Fax: Call the voice number and ask. Email General chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Large attachments: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SPS-related stuff: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM AIM: hackmiester1337 Skype: hackmiester31337 YIM: hackm1ester Gtalk: hackmiester MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xfire: hackmiester ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On 11/28/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 November 2006, at 01:34, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads Mine too. I have an R51. Man, that computer is awesome. No issues with it, etc. Toshiba is good too, when you compare it's price with ibm, you'll find Toshiba with it's features is better choice. Thank you, -Abdullah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:34:18PM -0800, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads. A quick search of the archives will bear out the popularity of that opinion. I also vote for Thinkpads. My trusty T22 has never failed me. The T43 that work gave me ran FreeBSD 6.1 like a champ. The only problem I had with the T43 was the fact it did not have a proper serial port. I was told to use some silly USB connector which never worked right. Yeah, a Thinkpad is expensive but they are worth it in the long run. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 6.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Micro$oft free world | Berkeley, Ca. pgp3NE8N0alfr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On 11/16/06, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd, and most likely fedora. I had no problems getting my wireless to work on the old one using the ndis stuff and freebsd beat the other two hands down for performance. Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. thanks Geoff I would say Toshiba ;) -J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
El día Thursday, November 16, 2006 a las 12:20:44PM +0300, John Smith escribió: On 11/16/06, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd, and most likely fedora. I had no problems getting my wireless to work on the old one using the ndis stuff and freebsd beat the other two hands down for performance. Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. What about http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ ? matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC PICA GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e [EMAIL PROTECTED] - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ http://guru.UnixLand.de/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:19:54 -0800
Josef Grosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only problem I had with the
T43 was the fact it did not have a proper serial port. I was told to use
some silly USB connector which never worked right.
a z60m here - same , but my serial-over-usb works really well, a prolific
PL-2303 chip. I have the following in my kernel
device ucom# serial port over USB
device uplcom # Prolific PL-2303 - Comsol's USB-Serial port
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Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:20:44 +0300
John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would say Toshiba ;)
Actually, yes - probably second only to IBMs in quality. #1 for features /
price. I have had more issues with suspend/resume with Tosh than IBMs though.
btw, there's a thread in mobile@ started a few days back on the question. Plus
several over the months, of course :)
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Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
Thanks Guys, I think that I might go with the Toshiba as unfortunately the Thinkpad seem a bit pricey (I can't stay of the booze any longer :) cheers g ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
Hi, On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, gb wrote: Thanks Guys, I think that I might go with the Toshiba as unfortunately the Thinkpad seem a bit pricey (I can't stay of the booze any longer :) I am not sure Toshiba is so good any more. Maybe just a coincidence but we use three Ts in our organization. Two have already broken (one mainboard, the other graphic card), the third one works but issues sudden, irregular beeps which Toshiba has been _unable_ to diagnose for 6 months now! They tell us that since it works, then it is nothing serious. I get rather mad when I hear that only because we didn't get a second-hand unit but a brand new one and I would expect it to shut up and work since it is new and T. We're a bit discouraged at the moment with Toshiba. -- Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
I've got myself a Toshiba A100-159. Some issues: No sound, no Wireless (to be honest, i haven't really bothered with trying to fix these two yes). Sometimes i get some weird acpi errors in my daily output. It does have one of those 1400xsomething wide screens, which isn't supported (yet) with the default XORG ati/radeon drivers. So you might want to put that on your check list. (also something i haven't really looked into, since i use an external screen 99.9% of the time). But besides that, it's working quite nicely. Stable, speedy. The internal SATA driver is supported, the burner works nicely, ethernet ok as well. I haven't tried PCMCIA, firewire, but USB works like a charm. Hopes this helps. gb wrote: Thanks Guys, I think that I might go with the Toshiba as unfortunately the Thinkpad seem a bit pricey (I can't stay of the booze any longer :) cheers g ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On Thursday November 16, 2006 at 06:08:02 (AM) Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I would expect it to shut up and work We have that expectation for a lot of our employees; however, as in your scenario, it has not panned out. -- White Hat I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home. W. C. Fields Sponsored Link Rates near historic lows - $200,000 mortgage for $660/ month - http://yahoo.ratemarketplace.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:58:21 +0300
gb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I can't stay of the booze any longer :)
mate, if your laptop purchases depend on your booze expenditure...you drink
some expensive stuff! (or you have some really low priced hardware
providers...which ones? ;) )
or maybe i dont drink as much as I used to...? :D
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Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hi, On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, gb wrote: Thanks Guys, I think that I might go with the Toshiba as unfortunately the Thinkpad seem a bit pricey (I can't stay of the booze any longer :) I am not sure Toshiba is so good any more. Maybe just a coincidence but we use three Ts in our organization. Two have already broken (one mainboard, the other graphic card), the third one works but issues sudden, irregular beeps which Toshiba has been _unable_ to diagnose for 6 months now! They tell us that since it works, then it is nothing serious. I get rather mad when I hear that only because we didn't get a second-hand unit but a brand new one and I would expect it to shut up and work since it is new and T. We're a bit discouraged at the moment with Toshiba. I work for several companies, managing their it assets, dealing with purchasing, configuration, and maintenance - collectively purchasing a few hundred laptops over the passed few years. I've been a FreeBSD since the 2.2.1-RELEASE days, and have always had FreeBSD on my personal laptop - which changes once a year to a new model, (sparing the IBM stinkpads as mentioned below which were completely incapable of booting *BSD due to IBM's lack of judgement/research). Same here - many issues with Toshiba laptops in the lest year or two. Stopped even thinking about the IBM Thinkpads - we call them stinkpads; had so many issues running BSD on them, in particular the M-series a few years back had bios issues as IBM chose *BSD's partition type (165) for their hybernation partition; poor excuses and even poorer support from IBM led us to cease purchasing their products and to seek elsewhere. IBM's official position on the issue, (after months of nagging them), was 'we only support windows 2000 on that particular model'. Don't get me wrong, IBM makes really good laptops - they take top-notch components, piece them all together well - package them up nicely, but then they totally screw up the bios and configuration so-as to be windows-centric. In the end, we moved to Compaq (just before the merger with HP), and have since never been happier. Using mostly the Compaq Presario and HP Pavillion lines now (geared towards home users) we find nothing beats them in terms of price/featureset. I'm writing this now from an HP Pavillion dv8000-series laptop, (AMD Turion 64 processor,1024mb ram, has two hard drives (80gb stock, added 7200rpm 80gb afterwards), 17 widescreen display, ATI graphics/chipset, wireless, dvd-rw, etc...). It dual boots between FreeBSD and Windows Vista 64-bit (for some development stuff), never had a problem with it - works great all-around and came stock with everything I could want for under $1300 Canadian dollars. I have yet to see IBM, Toshiba, or even Dell come close to that offering. Just my two cents - but for what it's worth, I've got the experience and numbers to back it up - only had a single unit sent back for repair in the last year, and even then was returned fixed as promised in two days. -- Nathan Vidican [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd, and most likely fedora. I had no problems getting my wireless to work on the old one using the ndis stuff and freebsd beat the other two hands down for performance. Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. thanks Geoff Hi Geoff, It's not FreeBSD, but may I suggest an Apple PowerBook running MacOS X ? Or the new MacBook line? I use a PowerBook G4 under MacOS X 10.4.8 as an administration system everyday to manage around 50+ FreeBSD servers. I connect to my server's serial consoles via a USB-to-Serial adapter from Keyspan with ZTerm. You also have access to a ports-like environement on MacOS X via http://www.macports.org/ and http://www.darwinports.com/. It works great. My two cents. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On 11/15/06, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd, and most likely fedora. I had no problems getting my wireless to work on the old one using the ndis stuff and freebsd beat the other two hands down for performance. Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. one site i would suggest is: http://nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=dmesgd;SQLIMIT=20 it'll allow you to search dmesg log files from various OS/Hardware combo's. I know i've put a couple thinkpad entries in there. hopefully it'll give you a good idea of the hardware support of various laptops out there. putting laptop as a search string seems to pull up a fair amount of hit's. HTH -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. I'd suggest you do NOT buy a Sony VAIO. The basic stuff works - like the screen, harddisk and keyboard - even mouse/touchpad. But then comes the trouble. - I still have unresolved problems with USB - I still have unresolved problems with ACPI - Intel Wireless works but linkstate goes up and down - Battery does not hold what it says: I have never got more than 1:30 out of it - and they claim more than 3 hours - (I assume with power off) But the screen is really great. So, my conclusion is that it is ok as an advanced DVD player/mail reader. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. I'd suggest you do NOT buy a Sony VAIO. The basic stuff works - like the screen, harddisk and keyboard - even mouse/touchpad. But then comes the trouble. [snip] But the screen is really great. So, my conclusion is that it is ok as an advanced DVD player/mail reader. I can second this and I'm not even using FreebSD (win xp). Avoid the Sony VGN-A790. Yes the screen is awesome. But that's it. Battery life is 52 minutes (brand new, I timed it, doing absoutely *nothing*. no music, no vids, just sitting). And just sitting, the fan kicks on routinely about every 2 minutes and whirs for about a minute then shuts off. Watching a video kicks it on full time. It's horrific. Run away :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:34:18PM -0800, George Allan wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads. A quick search of the archives will bear out the popularity of that opinion. I second this vote along with the others who favor the ThinkPad. (Also very much appreciate the heads-up on the VAIO below... ) I paid $336 for a 400MHz ThinkPad 600E in '03, including its upgrades, and it has run 24*7 for nearly 40 months. It is a bit slow to bring up the larger suites (like firefox or Abiword); but once in-memory, no complaints. --I'm still at 5.4 but when 6.2 has been running for a few months, I'll upgrade. So: good hardware, best software. That's my dime's worth. gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I'd suggest you do NOT buy a Sony VAIO ... - I still have unresolved problems with ACPI ... - Battery does not hold what it says: I have never got more than 1:30 out of it - and they claim more than 3 hours - (I assume with power off) These are very likely related. It is quite credible for working ACPI to double battery life, esp. under typical one-person usage (lots of idle time, when ACPI can put the CPU into powerdown). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best laptop for Freebsd
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote: Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system). http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. My vote is for Thinkpads. A quick search of the archives will bear out the popularity of that opinion. Be prepared first to investigate the hardware on any prospective model, second, evaluate the support with respect to each and every device, and finally, spend time and effort configuring things so things work just right, for increasingly large values of right. I believe the investment in time and effort pays off in all sorts of ways, but chances are you'll end up with a system that you'll consider indispensible and one that you'll know better than your girlfriend, wife, or whatever. I'll leave it to you decide whether that's a good thing. ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
