Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:46:16 +0700 From: Erich <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>, parv@pair.com Subject: Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?] Message-ID: <2319171.6nCITBFyJ4@x220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <20120607071014.GA53109@holstein.holy.cow> References: <20120605201900.GB60388@hs1.VERBENA> <1849552.ouQDGJxLWg@x220.ovitrap.com> <20120607071014.GA53109@holstein.holy.cow>
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Hi, On 06 June 2012 21:10:14 parv@pair.com wrote: > in message <1849552.ouQDGJxLWg@x220.ovitrap.com>, > wrote Erich thusly... > > > > On 06 June 2012 23:27:39 Chad Perrin wrote: > ... > > > I have immediately installed FreeBSD on the last four or five > > > laptops I > > > > I do this since 5.2 is out with all my purchases. > ... > > I have to admit, that I have had to install twice Fedora because > > the notebook hardware was not supported at that moment of time. > > > > The second Fedora installation will go as soon as get finished my > > travelling or I get me hands on a new hard disk. > > Erich, could you please list the offending Lenovo models? it is the X220. There is a solution available which needs a bit more time as I have had on hand before I left. As I have said several times already, I will be back with this machine to FreeBSD after my return. > > > ... > > What also has to be mentioned is the fact that people have to be > > more careful when shopping for new hardware with FreeBSD in mind. > > AMD based hardware is here of advantage at the moment. But it has > > other disadvantages. > ... > > What would be the said disadvantages? Some say that the AMD CPUs are slower per core. This X220 with the 2640 CPU seems to be very, very fast for me. I was surprised how it performed running plain FreeBSD. I would not have expected this much performance out of a small notebook. As this is my first Intel CPU since the good, old 80586, I cannot tell you more about Intel CPUs. Erich
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