Re: Recommended laptops for FreeBSD 6.x ...
Andrew Elmore <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:28:44PM +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > >I'm looking to purchase a new laptop and was wondering which laptops are > >recommended for a high-end system. > > IBM thinkpad for sure. I've been very happy with all my Thinkpads, having run FreeBSD on a 570, A21p, and now a T42p. I don't use the fancy 3d graphics, and the vanilla xorg server works well enough with the ATI graphics that I can use xrandr to have two displays. Suspending via ACPI works, the IBM branded Atheros wifi works fine, etc. Caveats: * Apparently the newer dual core chips aren't able to suspend and resume with FreeBSD. * Be sure to choose the IBM wifi, as the Intel wifi works poorly with FreeBSD. * In the modern world, the Intel graphics option has the best vendor support in the opensource driver. Also, this option seems to have the longest battery life. AE _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"