From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 15:02:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0698A16A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:02:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilmore.nas.nasa.gov (gilmore.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.33.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E867343D2D for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:02:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tweten@nas.nasa.gov) Received: from gilmore.nas.nasa.gov (IDENT:HYNOV9jZsTQeXDZ6Dj1CFpFbFkY7Im2C@localhost.nas.nasa.gov [127.0.0.1]) i2UN2L8c004120; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:02:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tweten@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) From: Dave Tweten Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:02:21 -0800 Message-ID: <4119.1080687741@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov> Sender: tweten@nas.nasa.gov cc: Bob Collins cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Best Laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: David.E.Tweten@nasa.gov List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:02:30 -0000 des@des.no said: >I've had three ThinkPads, including a 600E. All of them had problems >running FreeBSD. I use three ThinkPads now, all T23s. None of them has ever had a problem running FreeBSD. The one that has the combined wireless / losemodem doesn't have modem support with any open source OS, but the other two that use Lucent losemodems without the combined wireless are supported. My T23 and the union's T23 have been flawless for the two years since I bought them from IBM through Ebay. NASA's T23 has been on 24x7, serving as my workstation for over a year. It's hard disk recently began to fail to initialize if power cycled immediately after being seriously stressed (say by a Norton virus scan). IBM sent me a replacement under warrantee, and I'm typing this message on that T23. I love the trackpoint as opposed to touch pads. I always tend to rest my thumbs on a touch pad, with unpredictable results. Trackpoint drift cancels itself out if you just keep your hands off the trackpoint for a few seconds. I've never had a problem with any of the six batteries (main and ultraport extra for each of three machines). Unlike my experience with other laptops, these batteries seem to last as long as the manufacturer claims between recharges. Usually, I cut the claims in half as I read them. Power management software works fine with STABLE. I got the IBM/Phoenix stand-alone hibernation partition initialization diskette, and hybernation works well too (except for the need to switch to virtual console and back to XFree86 after waking up from hibernation). Obviously, your mileage may vary. I like mine. -- M/S 258-5 |1024-bit PGP fingerprint:|tweten@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center | 41 B0 89 0A 8F 94 6C 59| (650) 604-4416 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000| 7C 80 10 20 25 C7 2F E6|FAX: (650) 604-4377 Not an official NASA position. You can't even be certain who sent this!