Re: The Best Laptop
Bob Collins <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Mar 31, 2004, Dag-Erling Smrgrav clacked the keyboard to produce: > Bruce M Simpson <[email protected]> writes: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:48:07PM -0500, Jason Dusek wrote: > > > I am in the market for a new laptop and I would like to know which > > > laptop is the best for running FreeBSD and which one has the easiest > > > setup. Any suggestions? > > The IBM ThinkPad T40 is currently rocking my world. > > The ThinkPad series has a long history of bad batteries, buggy BIOSes > and AMLs, and idiosyncratic hardware which often requires a DOS or > Windows utility to enable / disable / configure. I'd recommend a Dell > Latitude (not Inspiron!) instead. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected] <no-flame-intended> Wow, considering that, I had no issues other than having to use OLDKERNEL to get my pcm slots working, my TP600X runs 4.9 perfectly. So much for the above. And considering the troubles I have had with office based Dell Brickbooks (at 9 pounds or so, they are not really portable) Inspirons and Latitudes, I would not use them if I could do otherwise. </no-flame-intended> Just my 0.02. -- Bob "Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom." -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo' _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"