RE: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-12-01 Thread CyberSword
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.

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-12-01 Thread Abram B OLson
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-12-01 Thread Old Ranger
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-28 Thread Alexandre Vieira
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-27 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-27 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
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).

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Josef Grosch
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread John Smith
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Matthias Apitz
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread gb
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
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.

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread nicky
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)

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread White Hat
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Nathan Vidican
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread David Robillard
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread pete wright
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
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 -

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Philip Hallstrom
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread Gary Kline
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread perryh
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

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-15 Thread George Allan
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