From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 9 22:19:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74C6816A4E5 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:19:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from bravo.pjkh.com (bravo.pjkh.com [72.36.232.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A2E43D64 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 22:19:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from bravo.pjkh.com (bravo.pjkh.com [72.36.232.219]) by bravo.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E2E413C7C8; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:24:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: by bravo.pjkh.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2E5CD13C7C5; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:24:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bravo.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D54713C7BF; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:24:58 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:24:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: John Kimble In-Reply-To: <20060809221244.58720.qmail@web57106.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20060809172431.B71649@bravo.pjkh.com> References: <20060809221244.58720.qmail@web57106.mail.re3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Low-cost, FreeBSD-compatible notebook X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:19:41 -0000 > I am looking into buying a cheap notebook computer (sub $800, the > cheaper the better). I have been playing around with FreeBSD for the > last few months and have decided to make it my sole OS, so I really want > a notebook that's as FreeBSD-compatible as possible. I know ThinkPad's > the best for Linux (I would expect the same for FreeBSD), but as they > are a little out of my price range ;) I was wondering if you guys had > some other suggestions. http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html http://www.zapatec.com/freebsd/laptop/ -philip