From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 13 16:03:43 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150909A7 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:03:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lenzi.sergio@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gg0-f182.google.com (mail-gg0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A6C8FC08 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-gg0-f182.google.com with SMTP id l1so1556993ggn.13 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:03:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references :disposition-notification-to:content-type:date:message-id :mime-version:x-mailer; bh=7w1qDzOfdOhBEnMudDpIoitYip4ycso3S0kCmS/F6TU=; b=ARDAvLjfqWQwF8tHN6KYzhIJ5BeKpX06k5OPElu5o2/jzOfLMiNXUrQ1Mwjxa/6dvq RGLlJ9xFeboKQRStmV+9B++X/gRbSIQOWhSkHumMM+22U0ccIQcl/CH0ZLM3UFZCIUXu hD+DKKo6KFfuRotIGl/LHpgZHHHx2P7mlMRutzTH3ksyvFYCOWgCBknortSlCyUE15vT 7m/v4WXy+WtFfzUNzNx4KnAykTAVP5Hcq3XcqPrJuQ5pcNldxe6VkfnVewJhJf1wEDsD Xpn+HWoQdEn+6j721Qs7tmTLScUP/f2UR+sqA53dqMA95XCxPvkFsKr4O/9xsb3nnQlw yLzw== Received: by 10.236.117.33 with SMTP id i21mr23332857yhh.81.1352822621648; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.6.230] ([189.123.205.219]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y18sm9033650anh.15.2012.11.13.08.03.39 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:03:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: BIOS update saga - the end From: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <201211042102.qA4L2Sxx044627@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201211042102.qA4L2Sxx044627@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:03:37 -0200 Message-ID: <1352822617.65223.14.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:03:43 -0000 That is one of the reasons I stop buying HP products specially laptops.. and sony vaio as well.. the last one I have is a z6000 that is still working very well with FreeBSD10. HP notebooks are "closed" works only with windows, are expensive consumes too much power, the bateries did not last... I live in Brazil and here one HP costs about 750 euros... a sony vaio is about 800 euros, I bought recently a Lenovo G475 (14inch LED display) notebook brand new, for 350 euros with 2Gb of memory, 320Gb of HD, atheros wifi, dvd rw, AMD radeon video, dual core... I bought more 4Gb of memory for 30 euros, and the notebook is now with 6Gb... Last week I bought a 15 inch notebook at the shopping near my home, with the same amd chip, wifi, large keyboard with separated numeric key, 4Gb memory, 500Gb disk.... for 320 euros (no brand name)... any of them works very well with FreeBSD, NetBSD or Linux... A friend of mine bought 10 of those for his company employees.. it is cheapper than upgrade de desktops.... That is my experience Sergio