From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 16 09:20:46 2006 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 4634A16A40F for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:20:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A253D43D46 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:20:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so349483uge for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:20:44 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bTMGY+PfAm6yUmYbk7cJ7diBKR0Tl2en38xpwioYTHJIgIluvIFa2l/VdStItO2gD7To7s6bvChEmMhk+qbLtqRypne/LZwsE8ROwy1vI6EwwDiJP1HE9Q+HAowXH4L0hPEjtp2GIix4yQweSZtyHJZBpblCxjT1IPHdLktxrtk= Received: by 10.67.119.9 with SMTP id w9mr497784ugm.1163668844519; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:20:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.255.10 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:20:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <499c70c0611160120y31802ee2ycebc5ef9929ed63d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:20:44 +0300 From: "John Smith" To: g In-Reply-To: <-4404915226760631920@unknownmsgid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <-4404915226760631920@unknownmsgid> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best laptop for Freebsd 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, 16 Nov 2006 09:20:46 -0000 On 11/16/06, g wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Well I stayed off the beer and other sinful delights for a while (month > or so P:) and have raked together enough cash to buy a new laptop. For > those of you out there with experience what would you advise. The plan > would be for ..unfortunately Windoze (vba stuff for work), Freebsd, and > most likely fedora. I had no problems getting my wireless to > work on the old one using the ndis stuff and freebsd beat the other > two hands down for performance. > > Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 6 (as > this is my day in day out operating system). > > Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated. > > > thanks > > Geoff I would say Toshiba ;) -J