From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 02:20:17 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5F9ACBD6 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 02:20:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pa0-x22b.google.com (mail-pa0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2B7E46CA for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 02:20:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pa0-f43.google.com with SMTP id eu11so76036293pac.2 for ; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:20:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=R2LREhmw08E2h/jetKWpoymfWLYBXPzz+WjD9SyCg90=; b=LT7po7HvFi0zToP5qJzwqx29Z3esnYqR3B5UbIMrxuKS0iDXoBZsyr9chKcT9qcElB gQvKTbKpC14oTfG223Yiv+ndMr/gCXeHts5HjQBjxYiy9Y22EdUG0x28OUt2DjOhmQhx 5eak5JD8fHCF6K9xuFa/A2McBj03IJB4pzvhEHeSIIVUErMZU5C65rCv3QRlSp+fMYmK LEEhJvMZ/IW0PS3dT0fE6kKB75xSOfu9lK/BTJw18nny575Wxk1OIDyN0rGn6SS0nyvv 0CewECgo2FTciWXRi+jpe/4YA8sRKCdytpS9+7GGzFjfKkadwNG3JnVWjtyXmb2wJafA ZpMQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.70.45.108 with SMTP id l12mr26037374pdm.112.1422843616587; Sun, 01 Feb 2015 18:20:16 -0800 (PST) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.67.22.231 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Feb 2015 18:20:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20150201113521.3c9bd5e4@B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com> References: <20150201113521.3c9bd5e4@B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 18:20:16 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: NbayZg2q2pObssZ-Z8GNJzmbjuQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: Buying a laptop From: Kevin Oberman To: Erich Dollansky Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: arnab bhowmick , "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 02:20:17 -0000 On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Erich Dollansky < erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:15:16 +0530 > arnab bhowmick wrote: > > > Hi friends i want to buy a laptop. please recommend some brand that > > can easily install freebsd . please suggest me something(brand) as my > > old laptop stopped working for shortcircuit and i am in great trouble. > > I use an Lenovo X220 with 10.1 since nearly three years. > > Be careful with cheaper Lenovos as they have very often hardware which > is not supported by FreeBSD. A higher end ThinkPad should do. > > As Intel's new CPU generation is coming out soon, there might be some > cheaper options on the older models coming too. > > Erich I second this. I have been using 'T' series and it's predecessors for almost 20 years with good results. Always running dual-boot Windows and FreeBSD. T520 for the past three years. Look for supported wireless cards.That has long been the most difficult issue. Had to replace the unsupported Realtech card with a supported Intel. Had to have the custom Lenovo PCI ID version which was 4x the price of the identical card with the Intel PCI ID. Many of the FreeBSD developers over the years have run X and T series units which leads to pretty good support. Booting off of a FreeBSD thumb drive is always a good idea regardless of what you buy, if possible. -- Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com