Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:24:47 -0600 From: "Zane C. B-H." <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best $1000 Freebsd laptop? Message-ID: <20111127112447.68d8cdbc@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> In-Reply-To: <CAMVJ978_DSV-_p7Rd%2BmJfTjw_Jed%2BXzRPQo_yUTUZvDt5%2BkMuA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAMVJ978_DSV-_p7Rd%2BmJfTjw_Jed%2BXzRPQo_yUTUZvDt5%2BkMuA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:20:47 -0500 Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> wrote: > I bought a laptop that has an unsupported video card, so now it is > my "windows laptop". I am thinking of getting another to be my > "freebsd laptop", so I want to make sure it really works with > FreebSD. I could probably spend <$1000 (USD) on one. I like the > look of the Lenovos but I am unfamiliar with all the different > models, and have never bought anything from their webstore. I > normally buy from Dell or Amazon, and I never buy used or > refurbished (unless its a car!). > > My main requirements are having long battery life, opengl graphics, > vtx suppoort (virtualization). A decent drive (500+GB) and ram > (6GB+) would be nice. I can't believe ZFS needs 6GB+ ram, and I am > not sure I would want to get a lot of ram, just so I could use > ZFS. On the other hand, I read that UFS is getting old. I would > rather use RAM for running virtual machines. > > I'm scared to death of getting another machine that has an > unsupported video card (like nvidia optimus), or no VTX. I want a > long lasting machine that I can travel with, take to work, and not > be limited by. My windows laptop is an i3 with VTX, and is a little > under-powered, so I am thinking of an i5+. I don't do a lot of > number-crunching, but I don't want it to be slow, either. On all the laptops where I've cared about graphics performance, I went with one with a nVidia chipset. Unless I am mistaken, that is the only real option currently for with X on FreeBSD, when it comes to having good OpenGL performance. In regards to UFS2, works perfectly fine for a laptop. In fact in general unless you really need expandable storage, there is little reason to use ZFS or any similar FS.
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