From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 14:52:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA7DC37B401 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 14:52:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32C4A43F75 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 14:52:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Cnr1-0000mf-00 for ; Mon, 05 May 2003 23:50:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Cnio-0000Ay-00 for ; Mon, 05 May 2003 23:42:06 +0200 From: "Jesse D. Guardiani" Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 17:43:27 -0400 Organization: WingNET Internet Services Lines: 51 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: ideal laptop recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 21:52:57 -0000 Howdy list, I'm in the market for a new laptop to replace my developer workstation. I've seen a ton of great looking laptops out there lately, but I know from experience that when running UNIX, you buy the hardware for the OS, not the other way around. I'm just wondering if the list can make some recommendations that might fit my needs. Price is not really that big of a factor for me as long as it's competative. I'm a developer. I spend more time on my computer than I do anywhere else, so I want something that I'll be happy with for a long time. However, my first choice, an Apple Powerbook G4 17" _is_ a bit too rich for my blood. Here are the features I'd really like to have in a laptop, but not necessarilly in any particular order: 1.) decently fast (2ghz) so I can compile things quickly 2.) 512MB DDR RAM 3.) Geforce 4 4.) Compact Flash card reader (is FreeBSD even capable of using these??) 5.) 10/100 Ethernet (duh) 6.) Great Power management support 7.) 15" or larger screen (don't care about res) 8.) CDRW/DVD 9.) Wireless support (don't really care how fast) 10.) I want all the keys on my keyboard to work. :) OK ok, I know that is a lot of stuff and I'm picky! But does anyone know of a laptop that has all of this AND it all works under FreeBSD? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net