From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 14:48:17 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6C59F3A1 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 14:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27B14DB3 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 14:48:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YII3h-0005eN-MU for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:33:01 +0100 Received: from dynamic34-29.dynamic.dal.ca ([129.173.34.203]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:33:01 +0100 Received: from jrm by dynamic34-29.dynamic.dal.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:33:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: Joseph Mingrone Subject: Re: Buying a laptop Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:32:47 -0400 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <86lhkge640.fsf@gly.ftfl.ca> References: <20150201113521.3c9bd5e4@B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dynamic34-29.dynamic.dal.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WUFV3xGGde9v8kW0UO0WX/loaDA= X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:48:17 -0000 I also have had mostly positive experience with many Thinkpads. Note I said Thinkpads and not Lenovos. Erich Dollansky writes: > I use an Lenovo X220 with 10.1 since nearly three years. I also have an X220, running a recent 10-STABLE. Pretty much everything works including wireless with the Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 and suspend and resume. I haven't figured out how to control the brightness and there is an annoying BIOS (bug/feature). You can't legacy boot from a GPT-partitioned disk without UEFI. Joseph