From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 19:34:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD03816A420 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:34:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from asmtp-out1.blueyonder.co.uk (asmtp-out1.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C99E43D45 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:34:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [82.41.229.193] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out1.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FABNH-00079e-GP; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:34:39 +0000 Message-ID: <43F6254F.8090706@dial.pipex.com> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:34:39 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051106 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xn Nooby References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:34:41 -0000 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