Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:34:39 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions? Message-ID: <43F6254F.8090706@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <bdf25fde0602171108k6c08425dn56d9b3b659a1649@mail.gmail.com> References: <bdf25fde0602171108k6c08425dn56d9b3b659a1649@mail.gmail.com>
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Xn Nooby wrote: > I >dont particularly trust the online lists of "laptops that work with >FreeBSD", since my other laptop is on one of them. > > > No specific laptop advice but I would have thought of that laptop list as a starting point. I wouldn't trust any single occurrence of "this laptop works" without verifying it with a google for "laptop model freebsd". (There are exceptions; I'd trust a review from some I "knew" - hi Giorgos :-)). The trouble is that laptop models fast outpace the laptop list. I'd find one that had all the features I wanted, appeared to work with FreeBSD, and find that it wasn't made any more. Or I'd find one that seemed to have all I wanted and then find next to nothing about it working with FreeBSD, other than other people asking the same question (e.g. the new IBM/Lenovo widescreen titanium thing, just before Xmas). Also, are you aware that there's a whole freebsd-mobile mailing list? A trawl through recent archives might at least get you some starting points, and if there are regular problems, some things to exclude. hth, --Alex
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