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On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:54:20 -0500 Anthony Jenkins
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>
>> From: Xn Nooby <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 8:20 AM
>> Subject: Best $1000 Freebsd laptop?
>>
>> I bought a laptop that has an unsupported video card, so now it
>is my
>> "windows laptop". I am thinking of getting another to be my
>> "freebsd
>> laptop", so I want to make sure it really works with FreebSD. I
>could
>> probably spend <$1000 (USD) on one. I like the look of the
>Lenovos
>> but I am unfamiliar with all the different models, and have never
>> bought anything from their webstore. I normally buy from Dell or
>> Amazon, and I never buy used or refurbished (unless its a car!).
>>
>> My main requirements are having long battery life, opengl
>graphics,
>> vtx suppoort (virtualization). A decent drive (500+GB) and ram
>(6GB+)
>> would be nice. I can't believe ZFS needs 6GB+ ram, and I am not
>sure
>> I would want to get a lot of ram, just so I could use ZFS. On
>the
>> other hand, I read that UFS is getting old. I would rather use
>RAM
>> for running virtual machines.
>>
>> I'm scared to death of getting another machine that has an
>unsupported
>> video card (like nvidia optimus), or no VTX. I want a long
>lasting
>> machine that I can travel with, take to work, and not be limited
>by.
>> My windows laptop is an i3 with VTX, and is a little under-
>powered, so
>> I am thinking of an i5+. I don't do a lot of number-crunching,
>but I
>> don't want it to be slow, either.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
>I'm running a fairly old
>9.0-CURRENT (9.0-CURRENT #7: Wed Aug 17 09:34:34 EDT 2011) on a
>cheap
>Acer Aspire 5552-7803 (~$400 USD) with an AMD Phenom II X4 CPU &
>the max 8GB RAM installed. On-board Atheros wi-fi and
>suspend/resume work
>fine, I run VirtualBox VMs and I believe accelerated X stuff
>works...
>
>Well maybe not - I'm running KDE4
>and just tried pulling up OpenGL info dialog which crashed my X
>session. Other
>minor problems are the box seems to become less stable the more
>times I
>suspend/resume without an intervening reboot, but I consider that
>a
>minor annoyance. I also added code to /etc/rc.resume to restart
>the wireless network because the suggested 'wpa_cli reassociate'
>was hit-or-miss. I haven't done any ZFS tuning to limit the
>amount of
>memory ZFS uses, might do that soon. I have a ZFS-on-root system.
>
>Anthony Jenkins
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