From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 10 02:29:49 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 5D4AB16A4DE for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:29:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darek@nyi.net) Received: from m.kolocation.com (m.nyi.net [66.111.12.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C864843D46 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:29:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darek@nyi.net) Received: (qmail 79713 invoked by uid 89); 10 Aug 2006 02:29:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.50?) (24.184.49.86) by 0 with SMTP; 10 Aug 2006 02:29:46 -0000 Message-ID: <44DA9A1A.4070701@nyi.net> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:29:46 -0400 From: Darek M User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Kimble References: <20060809221244.58720.qmail@web57106.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060809221244.58720.qmail@web57106.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Low-cost, FreeBSD-compatible notebook 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, 10 Aug 2006 02:29:49 -0000 John Kimble wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I am looking into buying a cheap notebook computer (sub $800, the cheaper the better). I have been playing around with FreeBSD for the last few months and have decided to make it my sole OS, so I really want a notebook that's as FreeBSD-compatible as possible. I know ThinkPad's the best for Linux (I would expect the same for FreeBSD), but as they are a little out of my price range ;) I was wondering if you guys had some other suggestions. > Depends on what your budget is. I paid $1600 last year for a spiffy T42 with a great 14" SXGA LCD. The "Express" models on Lenovo's site are the cheaper versions You can score a T20, 21, 22 or 23 on eBay really cheap, and still get a decent CPU with X support, so don't assume they come at a premium cause you might miss out on a decent machine with the best keyboard around. I personally don't run FBSD on it as I have yet to see a successful implementation of sleep/hybernate. So far, only Ubuntu Linux seems to support it in a stable way, but I replaced Windows XP's explorer.exe with Blackbox4Windows and cygwin, so its almost like using a unix box with a decent window manager. - Darek