Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:53:39 -0500 From: "Xn Nooby" <xnooby@gmail.com> To: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: small freebsd laptop suggestions? Message-ID: <bdf25fde0602171353y19ec69e4m37d02178d78e26e3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0602171234p1a4500e8qa947396af371722f@mail.gmail.com> References: <bdf25fde0602171108k6c08425dn56d9b3b659a1649@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0602171234p1a4500e8qa947396af371722f@mail.gmail.com>
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thats an awesome website! I will check it out more thoroughly over the weekend, they had a lot of used thinkpads thanks! On 2/17/06, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2/17/06, Xn Nooby <xnooby@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x, > > ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip s= o > I > > can do OpenGL stuff. Any suggestions? It doesnt have to be superfast= , > > though I would prolly want to drop a 100GB 2.5" drive in it later. > > > > 2 years ago I foolishly bought a HP Pavillion, and I have to use an > external > > keyboard with it for FreebSD (or else it wont boot). The HP laptop is > now a > > dedicated Windows machine (and I'd return it if I could). > > > > Is anyone using a laptop that they are happy with? Maybe a refurbished > > Thinkpad? (though I prefer to buy lapotops new, in case they are > duds). I > > dont particularly trust the online lists of "laptops that work with > > FreeBSD", since my other laptop is on one of them. > > > > I plan to carry the laptop around a lot, so I'm looking for something a > > little smaller than average. My HP Pavillion is about 7lbs, which is > too > > big. Maybe a small Thinkpad, if they still make them? > > You want a Apple PowerBook err... MacBook Pro. I have a G4 model and > it's sweet... anyways, if you don't want a Mac then look for corporate > / large business orientated notebooks. They normally don't have all > the stupid whiz-bang features found on home notebooks and are modular > across product lines. For example I had and HP OmniBook 6000 (700Mhz) > and desided I wanted a faster book so I found a striped out OmniBook > 6100 (1.13Ghz PIII-M) on eBay. It used the same batteries, drive > trays, PowerBrick, etc. so I just used the ones from the old notebook. > As for the OB6100 I have, I've never tried FreeBSD on it but SuSE 9.3 > Pro worked perfect. I Have Win2K on it now so I can run Multisim, > Mathematica, Maple, and other proprietary software I need for college. > (Going back to school for computer engineering degree.) > > You can pickup used notebooks at RetroBox. > "RetroBox clients are Fortune 500 companies. When a Fortune 500 > company upgrades to leading edge technology, they leave behind a trail > of some of the best maintained previously-owned desktop computer > equipment available. Well, we're all over it!" > > http://www.retrobox.com/rbwww/home/search_results_pc_laptops.asp?bin_id= =3Dworld >
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