Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:16:05 -0500 From: joquendo@hushmail.com To: xnooby@gmail.com, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, scoobi_doo@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Best $1000 Freebsd laptop? Message-ID: <20111108181605.B79F76F44B@smtp.hushmail.com>
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lol fuck u On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:54:20 -0500 Anthony Jenkins <scoobi_doo@yahoo.com> wrote: >----- Original Message ----- > >> From: Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> >> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org >> Cc: >> Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 8:20 AM >> Subject: Best $1000 Freebsd laptop? >> >> I bought a laptop that has an unsupported video card, so now it >is my >> "windows laptop". I am thinking of getting another to be my >> "freebsd >> laptop", so I want to make sure it really works with FreebSD. I >could >> probably spend <$1000 (USD) on one. I like the look of the >Lenovos >> but I am unfamiliar with all the different models, and have never >> bought anything from their webstore. I normally buy from Dell or >> Amazon, and I never buy used or refurbished (unless its a car!). >> >> My main requirements are having long battery life, opengl >graphics, >> vtx suppoort (virtualization). A decent drive (500+GB) and ram >(6GB+) >> would be nice. I can't believe ZFS needs 6GB+ ram, and I am not >sure >> I would want to get a lot of ram, just so I could use ZFS. On >the >> other hand, I read that UFS is getting old. I would rather use >RAM >> for running virtual machines. >> >> I'm scared to death of getting another machine that has an >unsupported >> video card (like nvidia optimus), or no VTX. I want a long >lasting >> machine that I can travel with, take to work, and not be limited >by. >> My windows laptop is an i3 with VTX, and is a little under- >powered, so >> I am thinking of an i5+. I don't do a lot of number-crunching, >but I >> don't want it to be slow, either. >> >> Any suggestions? > >I'm running a fairly old >9.0-CURRENT (9.0-CURRENT #7: Wed Aug 17 09:34:34 EDT 2011) on a >cheap >Acer Aspire 5552-7803 (~$400 USD) with an AMD Phenom II X4 CPU & >the max 8GB RAM installed. On-board Atheros wi-fi and >suspend/resume work >fine, I run VirtualBox VMs and I believe accelerated X stuff >works... > >Well maybe not - I'm running KDE4 >and just tried pulling up OpenGL info dialog which crashed my X >session. Other >minor problems are the box seems to become less stable the more >times I >suspend/resume without an intervening reboot, but I consider that >a >minor annoyance. I also added code to /etc/rc.resume to restart >the wireless network because the suggested 'wpa_cli reassociate' >was hit-or-miss. I haven't done any ZFS tuning to limit the >amount of >memory ZFS uses, might do that soon. I have a ZFS-on-root system. > >Anthony Jenkins >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile- >unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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