Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Wilkinson, Alex
If cost is not a big problem, then IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Series (I prefer T-series) is the best from my past experiences. And you may check following As someone who used (and use) 360, 701C, T30, T42p, X60 and T61p, I wholeheartedly agree with past experiences... with past being a

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:51:35PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: If cost is not a big problem, then IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Series (I prefer T-series) is the best from my past experiences. And you may check following As someone who used (and use) 360, 701C, T30, T42p, X60 and T61p,

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Aggelidis Nikos
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm buying a new computer, what should I buy? Buy whatever suits your needs, and feels comfortable for you. With regards to OS compatibility, this is a difficult one. Googling to see what other people have

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:36:37PM +0300, Aggelidis Nikos wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm buying a new computer, what should I buy? Buy whatever suits your needs, and feels comfortable for you. With regards to OS compatibility,

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Jul-25 13:36:37 +0300, Aggelidis Nikos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From my perspective freebsd should advertise(*) the laptops that work with it, out of the box, so that new users {like me} know what to buy; Who do you suggest is going to do this? Buying one of every type of laptop,

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:00:38PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: Successive generations of laptops have become less and less free-OS-friendly. This is simply wrong. Most laptops ship either with Ati or Intel chipset. Both tend to be well supported. With a bit care, you will get wpi as wireless

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: And if you go with Lenovo, be aware that their T60/T60p/T61/T61p series (and possibly the X-series) are known to sport very high temperatures. Some people have reported temperatures of nearly 90C on their GPU (when idling), which has a direct

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Razmig K
How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron 1525N and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running FreeBSD smoothly? A quick glance over the hardware notes of 7.0-RELEASE and some googling around show that wireless, video and audio are supported. //rk

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Razmig K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron 1525N and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running FreeBSD smoothly? A quick glance over the hardware notes of 7.0-RELEASE and some

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:35:44PM +0300, Razmig K wrote: How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron 1525N and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running FreeBSD smoothly? A quick glance over the hardware notes of 7.0-RELEASE and some googling

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Razmig K
Zaphod Beeblebrox a écrit : On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Razmig K [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron 1525N and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running FreeBSD smoothly? A

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Razmig K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron 1525N and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running FreeBSD

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 24 July 2008, Frank Mayhar wrote: My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix, sigh, so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions from this list (cc'd to hackers for the exposure, I know everyone doesn't read -mobile). I haven't played

Intel Q35 works (patch attached)

2008-07-25 Thread Ted Faber
Some recent work in the AGP drivers seems to have combined to make FreeBSD support the Intel Q35 in my Intel Optiplex 755. Attached is a one-line patch to enable detection of the chipset (really moving a comment character). It would be great if someone would commit it. If no one notices this

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:34:32 -0500, Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix, sigh, so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions from this list (cc'd to hackers for the exposure, I know everyone doesn't read

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Outback Dingo
IBM Z series, my Z60M Titanium, runs great and still actually looks brand new being 2+ years old the X, T and Z series laptops are all decent, i cant say on quality, im still using the one i got almost three years ago with no issues. 1680x1050 on a 15'4 wide wcreen is nice also. I also have an