Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD
Gabor Kovesdan <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile,gmane.os.freebsd.questions |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Wojciech Puchar escribió: >> >> I'm about to buy a netbook, which: >> - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) >> - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) >> - has a normal HDD not an SSD > > point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway > in order of few watts, compared to CPUs taking 20-50W, excluding those > really "mobile". so >4 hours on battery&HDD seems possible. > Yes, but buying anything is always about compromises. Recent HDD models are pretty good and I don't need the most hi-end model with an extreme battery life, just a reasonable uptime with HDD. I think I'll go for the Acer Aspire ONE. I haven't got comments from these lists about that model in particular but I googled a bit and it seems mostly everything works with it. -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL: [email protected] .:|:. [email protected] WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"