From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 21:54:16 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 4E06216A420 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:54:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xnooby@gmail.com) Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE9C43DA9 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:53:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xnooby@gmail.com) Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l35so353459nfa for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:53:39 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=kzVp3lIOKzzdrVG0z/xIG3SuooUTWpPwHfVnDIher1Oka+1Cld1AMxWpAG1+m2ghK+uT4/Otg25e3Sc2Lt1Vse81CFD+hBXGBIyI1NkC+FuBS4hZNjT5lcmqZOC8mxkfkwsXTrsJpN0/LLG7wJkqFRRAbVNiXdYsnX0GaKc4yWs= Received: by 10.48.49.13 with SMTP id w13mr554757nfw; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:53:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.211.7 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:53:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:53:39 -0500 From: "Xn Nooby" To: "Nikolas Britton" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 21:54:16 -0000 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 wrote: > > On 2/17/06, Xn Nooby 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 >