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Date:      Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:04:57 -0400
From:      nawcom <nawcom@nawcom.no-ip.com>
To:        Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de>,  freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on current crop of laptops?
Message-ID:  <43068FC9.7040104@nawcom.no-ip.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050819062343.GA17603@laverenz.de>
References:  <43040A7A.5030300@vilot.com> <20050819062343.GA17603@laverenz.de>

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When I had my Dell Inspiron 5100, it took a little tweaking but I 
eventually got agp support to work. I havent heard any info about the 
newer dell models though

Ben


Uwe Laverenz wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:11:38PM -0600, Tom Vilot wrote:
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>>I like the (big-ass) Toshiba Satellite machines, but I'm not wedded to 
>>them. I am curious what people's experiences are with some of the newer 
>>laptops and what might be recommended.
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>I can recommend the IBM Thinkpad R51, especially the models with Ati
>7500 or 9000 graphics, because these chips are supported by the free
>drivers that come with Xorg. I run FreeBSD 5.4 on my R51 and I am very
>happy with it.
>
>I have also heard positive statements about the Samsung X20 XVM 1600.
>
>Uwe
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