Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:20:21 -0500 From: Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> To: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best $1000 Freebsd laptop? Message-ID: <CAMVJ9790OOYhHii59R6khg6p44v7r9osQWK8FRu%2BrTS02ERoyw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFHbX1JDdxz%2BCrhK7UE8FDpj8TU-R3ufZRDSLRgMCFS6RDSsjQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAMVJ978_DSV-_p7Rd%2BmJfTjw_Jed%2BXzRPQo_yUTUZvDt5%2BkMuA@mail.gmail.com> <CAFHbX1JDdxz%2BCrhK7UE8FDpj8TU-R3ufZRDSLRgMCFS6RDSsjQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks, I will take a look at the Dell Latitudes. How much RAM does yours have, and how much did you allocate to ZFS? On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> wrote: >> I bought a laptop that has an unsupported video card, so now it is my >> "windows laptop". =A0I am thinking of getting another to be my "freebsd >> laptop", so I want to make sure it really works with FreebSD. =A0I could >> probably spend <$1000 (USD) on one. =A0I like the look of the Lenovos >> but I am unfamiliar with all the different models, and have never >> bought anything from their webstore. =A0I normally buy from Dell or >> Amazon, and I never buy used or refurbished (unless its a car!). >> >> My main requirements are having long battery life, opengl graphics, >> vtx suppoort (virtualization). =A0A decent drive (500+GB) and ram (6GB+) >> would be nice. =A0I can't believe ZFS needs 6GB+ ram, and I am not sure >> I would want to get a lot of ram, just so I could use ZFS. =A0On the >> other hand, I read that UFS is getting old. =A0I would rather use RAM >> for running virtual machines. >> >> I'm scared to death of getting another machine that has an unsupported >> video card (like nvidia optimus), or no VTX. =A0I want a long lasting >> machine that I can travel with, take to work, and not be limited by. >> My windows laptop is an i3 with VTX, and is a little under-powered, so >> I am thinking of an i5+. =A0I don't do a lot of number-crunching, but I >> don't want it to be slow, either. >> >> Any suggestions? > > I'm using a Dell Latitude E6410 with nvidia graphics option (NVS > 3100M) with 8.2-STABLE*. Everything worked out of the box, except for > suspend/resume, which I personally don't care about, and have never > even tried to get working. > > ZFS doesn't require 6GB of RAM, but it will use all available RAM > unless you tell it otherwise. You can limit the amount of ARC to a > sane amount depending upon your available RAM/workloads, and ZFS won't > grow much above that (ARC is not the only thing it uses memory on, but > it is the biggest). You would get decent performance limiting ZFS to ~ > 2GB of RAM. > > Cheers > > Tom > > * Please don't tell me "8.2 STABLE doesn't exist, it's 8-STABLE" - > it's not according to what "uname -r" says. >
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