Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:17:58 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions? Message-ID: <20080725141758.GA20940@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <20080725130038.GT74748@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <1216910072.2251.8.camel@jill.exit.com> <a699ffdd0807240739s60ec59a7q22cf4e53025844d6@mail.gmail.com> <1216945181.1179.23.camel@RabbitsDen> <20080725055135.GN53966@stlux503.dsto.defence.gov.au> <20080725064436.GA64711@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <30fc78250807250336n4f52b0d0vd087fe01d1f940e6@mail.gmail.com> <20080725130038.GT74748@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:00:38PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Successive generations of laptops have become less and less > free-OS-friendly. This is simply wrong. Most laptops ship either with Ati or Intel chipset. Both tend to be well supported. With a bit care, you will get wpi as wireless chipset (e.g. avoid draft n). I found ACPI compliance to have improved a lot over the recent time and in fact the number of ACPI bugs that can't be worked around in general ways has become very low. Joerg
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