Re: Recommended laptop for FreeBSD 10.2 Xfce workstation?

Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 19:54:29 -0700
David Christensen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 03/31/2016 05:22 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > 4. Why do you want to have an optical drive built into your laptop? Do you use optical media that often? For me, I use optical media rarely these days, so a usb connected optical reader / burner is enough.
> 
> a.  So I can boot from disc -- for installation and running live discs.

For me, this is writing an image to a usb stick and running / installing from that. It has been for several years now.
These days, I is very rarely encounter machines that can't boot from usb.
YMMV.

> b.  So I can burn discs -- music to CD, video to DVD/ BD, data to 
> whatever size makes sense.
> 
> c.  So I can read discs.

For me, these activities happen seldom enough that an external writer with usb connection is good enough.
Again, YMMV.
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Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]>
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