From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 18 12:30:58 2005 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 729A516A41F for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:30:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kane.otenet.gr (kane.otenet.gr [195.170.0.95]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A944543D45 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:30:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from flame.pc (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226]) by kane.otenet.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-1) with SMTP id j7ICUsRT008026; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:30:54 +0300 Received: from flame.pc (flame [127.0.0.1]) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7ICadmx001900; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:36:39 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by flame.pc (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j7ICacWQ001899; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:36:38 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:36:38 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Tom Vilot Message-ID: <20050818123638.GE1282@flame.pc> References: <43040A7A.5030300@vilot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43040A7A.5030300@vilot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on current crop of laptops? 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: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:30:58 -0000 On 2005-08-17 22:11, Tom Vilot 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)