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. -- Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"