From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 01:19:54 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 AAD8A37B401 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 01:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub02.unibe.ch (mailhub.unibe.ch [130.92.9.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A964643F93 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 01:19:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roth@iam.unibe.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhub02.unibe.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id D500676817; Wed, 28 May 2003 10:19:52 +0200 (MEST) Received: from mailhub02.unibe.ch ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailhub02 [127.0.0.1:10024]) (amavisd-new) with LMTP id 25949-01-80; Wed, 28 May 2003 10:19:52 +0200 (MEST) Received: from asterix.unibe.ch (asterix.unibe.ch [130.92.64.4]) by mailhub02.unibe.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27EAB76815; Wed, 28 May 2003 10:19:52 +0200 (MEST) Received: from speedy.unibe.ch (speedy [130.92.64.35]) by asterix.unibe.ch (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4S8JpK23889; Wed, 28 May 2003 10:19:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from roth@localhost) by speedy.unibe.ch (8.11.6+Sun/8.10.2) id h4S8Jp928069; Wed, 28 May 2003 10:19:51 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 10:19:51 +0200 From: Tobias Roth To: Pisut Tempatarachoke Message-ID: <20030528081951.GA25248@speedy.unibe.ch> Mail-Followup-To: Pisut Tempatarachoke , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <001101c324ed$4bbfdca0$a028ec83@tempatarachoke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001101c324ed$4bbfdca0$a028ec83@tempatarachoke> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: SunOS speedy 5.8 Generic_108528-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 X-Virus-checked: by University of Berne cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Vs ThinkPad T40 or R40? 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: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:19:55 -0000 On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 05:46:49PM +1000, Pisut Tempatarachoke wrote: > - Does FreeBSD support Centrino technology? Don't know anything about that. > - What is the maximum screen resolution FreeBSD supports? What resolution > is recommenderd? SVGA+, 1400x1050 is what the IBM models offer and is what I would recommend. Don't go for the lower resolution models. > - Does FreeBSD support USB 2.0? Partly. From 5.1BETA2 HARDWARE.TXT: USB 2.0 controllers using the EHCI interface (ehci(4) driver) [are supported]. However, I do not know how useful that support is yet. > - What is the maximum memory supported? >From 5.1BETA2 RELNOTES.TXT: This allows the use of up to 64GB of RAM in a machine. [of course, if supported by that machine]. > - What are general hardware-FreeBSD-incompatibility issues I should be aware > of when making a decision? The Thinkpad models work pretty swiftly. The only device that I do not know about is the internal modem. Everything else basically worsk. There is an unresolved usb bug which prevents the internal bluetooth device from working (the device itself is supported just fine). Another problem with the display not turning back on after resume is easily worked around. ACPI does not fully work. But it's getting better. APM does, though. > - I'm planning to have my laptop dual-bootable with Windows XP pro and > FreeBSD. Would I be able to access data on my FreeBSD partition from my > Windows partition, and vice versa? If you use FAT32 for windows, you can access those partitions (or slices) just fine from FreeBSD. If you use NTFS, read access should be possible as well. The other way round, I doubt you have a chance. > - Are there good books out there that will get me started on FreeBSD? (I do > have some UNIX background, not very strong though.) "The complete FreeBSD" by Greg Lehey is a very recommendable book: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdcomp > - Any other comments or suggestions on which laptop model I should go for > are very welcome. The T30 is what I can recommend. The T40 looks very sweet too, but I do not know about the centrino, especially the wireless part of it. Hope that helps, t.