Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:36:38 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Tom Vilot <tom@vilot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on current crop of laptops? Message-ID: <20050818123638.GE1282@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <43040A7A.5030300@vilot.com> References: <43040A7A.5030300@vilot.com>
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On 2005-08-17 22:11, Tom Vilot <tom@vilot.com> wrote: > I'm itching for a new laptop. > > I like the (big-ass) Toshiba Satellite machines, but I'm not wedded to > them. I am curious what people's experiences are with some of the newer > laptops and what might be recommended. > > Also -- I am interested (possibly) in an AMD 64 laptop, if BSD is > working well on one... I'm typing this on an Acer Ferrari 3400. FreeBSD installs in a breeze, after rebuilding a kernel with "cpufreq" I can run powerd to reduce power consumption as much as possible, and the only two parts that I haven't had a change to configure yet (during the last 2-3 days) are: - Wireless networking - Internal modem (this will probably never work)
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