Re: laptop questions/comments

2011-04-21 Thread Nicholas Schmidt
I purchased a Lenovo u150. Every device other than bluetooth work great in OpenBSD 4.8 and higher. Even the webcam works for video chat. Great little laptop that is 64bit capable, small, better screen resolution than the older thinkpads, and cheap Nick On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 16:20, Clint Pachl

Re: laptop questions/comments

2011-04-19 Thread Clint Pachl
STeve Andre' wrote: On 04/15/11 19:03, Paul M wrote: Hi all, It's time for a new OpenBSD laptop, and I have a couple of questions. Note that I dont want to spend money on performance I dont need, but I do want to spend money on a decent quality machine. First, finding quality machines in

Re: laptop questions/comments

2011-04-16 Thread Brett
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:03:15 +1200 From: Paul M l...@no-tek.com To: OpenBSD general usage list misc@openbsd.org Subject: laptop questions/comments Message-ID: 04d87a5828d374d828bc3e1b091de...@no-tek.com Hi all, It's time for a new OpenBSD laptop, and I have a couple of questions. Note

laptop questions/comments

2011-04-15 Thread Paul M
Hi all, It's time for a new OpenBSD laptop, and I have a couple of questions. Note that I dont want to spend money on performance I dont need, but I do want to spend money on a decent quality machine. First, finding quality machines in the backwoods where I live is really hard. The shops

Re: laptop questions/comments

2011-04-15 Thread Amit Kulkarni
You should always pick up a current .iso snapshot and stick it in the device... Personally, I wouldn't buy a Celeron. I know there's tons of Celerons around with this enabled and that disabled but its performance is pitiful compared to a i3 or even a AMD Bobcat/APU. I would go for a AMD Bobcat

Re: laptop questions/comments

2011-04-15 Thread STeve Andre'
On 04/15/11 19:03, Paul M wrote: Hi all, It's time for a new OpenBSD laptop, and I have a couple of questions. Note that I dont want to spend money on performance I dont need, but I do want to spend money on a decent quality machine. First, finding quality machines in the backwoods where I

Re: laptop questions/comments

2011-04-15 Thread Francois Pussault
Subject: laptop questions/comments Hi all, It's time for a new OpenBSD laptop, and I have a couple of questions. Note that I dont want to spend money on performance I dont need, but I do want to spend money on a decent quality machine. First, finding quality machines in the backwoods where I