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Date:      Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:25:40 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Razmig K <strontium90@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Laptop suggestions?
Message-ID:  <20080725212540.GA8159@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <488A0EF0.6020402@gmail.com>
References:  <20080725120020.A428F106569E@hub.freebsd.org> <488A0EF0.6020402@gmail.com>

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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:35:44PM +0300, Razmig K wrote:
> How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron  
> 1525N and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running  
> FreeBSD smoothly? A quick glance over the hardware notes of 7.0-RELEASE  
> and some googling around show that wireless, video and audio are 
> supported.

A co-worker of mine has a Dell (I forget which model; I'll ask him this
coming week), running Kubuntu.  The overall compatibility is quite good,
and I haven't heard any complaints from him.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
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