From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 15:02:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C457C37B401 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:02:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dmlb.org (pc2-cmbg4-6-cust36.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [81.96.76.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8916143FDF for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:02:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@dmlb.org) Received: from orac.my.domain ([192.168.200.75] helo=orac) by dmlb.org with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 19UvsG-000DQp-00; Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:02:48 +0100 Message-ID: <00c901c33a9c$5b6e4b90$4bc8a8c0@orac> From: "Duncan Barclay" To: "Erik Paulsen Skaalerud" , References: <005f01c33a9b$34e76e30$0a00000a@eps> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:02:51 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: Wich laptop to get? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:02:57 -0000 From: "Erik Paulsen Skaalerud" > I know, this probably has been asked a million times before, but I thought I > should ask this because of the acpi, or, well, the troubles with laptops and > FreeBSD 5.1.. > > What is a great laptop to buy these days? I'm kind of poor, so I cant get a > expensive one. I need a laptop with: > - a good GFX card (yes, I do play games on windows, I'll dual-boot) > - space for lots of memory (1GB) > - hopefully something faster than a 4200rpm disk. I'm considering getting a > laptop with USB2 interface and a external disk, and just use it via USB1 in > FreeBSD (since it doesnt like USB2 much, yet atleast.) I'm heartly impressed with my Acer 800CLi (it's a Centrino based machine). The CPU is a mobile pentium at 1.3GHz, and Sandra soft benchmarks it at around a 2GHz P4. GFX is Radeon 9000 card, 1400x1050 screen, and very light with 5hrs battery life. But,... the ACPI doesn't, the Cardbus doesn't and the Ethernet doesn't. I'm working on an Ethernet driver and will get round to fixing the Cardbus at some point (I'm partly not doing it yet so that I have an incentive to get the Ethernet working). Price wise, it is about the cheapest Centrino machine at £1370+vat. This may be too much for you. If you want a fast machine, watch out for the memory fitted. Many laptops seem to be capable of taking faster memory than they are actually sold with. I guess they do this to keep the price down. Duncan