Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:06:04 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> Cc: Achim Patzner <ap@bnc.net>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions? Message-ID: <1217505964.78925.12.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <e71790db0807301745i60747da1vdbeb5650421b522f@mail.gmail.com> References: <1216910072.2251.8.camel@jill.exit.com> <op.uevchzc99aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <C5BCB173-CB87-4739-99CB-74CF7E76FBC4@ixsystems.com> <86y73j341e.fsf@ds4.des.no> <B057C10B-1269-4295-AA90-24E7AE9D9F08@bnc.net> <86bq0ftjf6.fsf@ds4.des.no> <8C2BF4B9-14CD-40EA-B22E-DBB7060BFE46@bnc.net> <e71790db0807301745i60747da1vdbeb5650421b522f@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-vxbiEvPDaU9K53upYFd2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:45 -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Achim Patzner <ap@bnc.net> wrote: > > Am 30.07.2008 um 18:40 schrieb Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav: > >> > >> I don't understand what Macs have to do with this - we're talking abou= t > >> iX Systems's made-for-BSD laptop. > > > > The thread started with someone asking for a mobile computer that > > would support FreeBSD sufficiently and nobody came up with something > > fitting the bill (and being available somewhere). Considering the > > picture you're seeing at any place where more than two hardcore Unix > > users assemble you're seeing a majority of Macs. There has to be an > > obvious reason for that... I tried to break that habit more than once > > but right now the only comfortable way of running FreeBSD on a laptop > > is VMware Fusion on a Mac. Reading this entire thread convinced me > > even more. >=20 > Please define "comfortable". I've been running FreeBSD 7.0 pretty > comfortably on my HP nx6320 for several months now. I never attempted > to use neither Bluetooth nor the fingerprint reader, so I don't miss > them. The only real drawback I've found was that the memory card > reader does not work. I also ran 8.0-CURRENT on a HP 6910p because 7.0 > did not support the WI-FI card. >=20 > -- > Carlos Santos > Working, but not speaking (or advertising) for HP :-) Another happy BSD user on HP - nc6320 this time though. intel(4x) graphics, wpi(4) wifi, bge(4) networking, fwochi(4) firewire, serial port, plenty of USB ports. Even the fingerprint scanner works (security/libfprint). I don't use bluetooth or the card reader, so cannot comment on them. The one down side of my HP laptop is the HP BIOS refuses to start up with a different wifi card installed - I'd quite like to use an ath(4) based card.. I could imagine if you just need to play with an OS, or if you mainly develop the OS, running it under some sort of VM on a host system would be more useful. For me, running under VM would be a nightmare.=20 Tom --=-vxbiEvPDaU9K53upYFd2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkiRqqcACgkQlcRvFfyds/cZeQCfe+pY/5Kr1nzsat9PP01+dgkU kkwAn1iKbKm3VyT9PfgLl5A7AftOngP5 =k+4i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-vxbiEvPDaU9K53upYFd2--
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