Re: What laptop do you recommend?
"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
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> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:06:30 +0100 > From: Matthias Schmidt <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > > Hi, > > * [email protected] wrote: > > hi everyone, > > I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work > > WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: > > My personal favorite is an IBM Thinkpad Laptop. I have a Thinkpad T43 > and T23 and both models run FreeBSD 6.0. Have a look at my > Thinkpad+FreeBSD page: > > http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/ibm/ Oops! I forgot one VERY important detail. The BIOS update on 29-Nov-2005 is very important! Without it there were several problems with ACPI and suspend/resume. Be sure to update the BIOS and Embedded Controller firmware (available at the Lenovo support site (http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/homeLenovo.do?country=us). -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"