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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on current crop of laptops?
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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.
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>I have also heard positive statements about the Samsung X20 XVM 1600.
>
>Uwe
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