From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Mar 28 10:24:22 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 333D2AE0BE8 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 10:24:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from afiskon@devzen.ru) Received: from relay16.nicmail.ru (relay16.nicmail.ru [195.208.5.134]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DCFBF18AB for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 10:24:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from afiskon@devzen.ru) Received: from [109.70.25.226] (port=43964 helo=fujitsu) by f17.mail.nic.ru with esmtp (Exim 5.55) (envelope-from ) id 1akUAM-000KrH-4O; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 13:12:58 +0300 Received: from [93.174.131.138] (account afiskon@devzen.ru HELO fujitsu) by proxy04.mail.nic.ru (Exim 5.55) with id 1akUAM-00067V-8T; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 13:12:58 +0300 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 13:12:32 +0300 From: Aleksander Alekseev To: David Christensen Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended laptop for FreeBSD 10.2 Xfce workstation? Message-ID: <20160328131232.010ae86b@fujitsu> In-Reply-To: <56F84093.3030106@holgerdanske.com> References: <56F84093.3030106@holgerdanske.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 10:24:22 -0000 Hello, David Take a look on Fujitsu laptops, e.g. E733 (there are also many other models like this one). These concrete model seems to satisfy your requirements. Currently I'm running Ubuntu on it. But I don't see a reason why there should be any problem with FreeBSD since hardware seems to be compatible. Not sure regarding Wi-Fi though, but there are cheap and very small USB adapters like TP-LINK TL-WN725N and Edimax EW-7811Un that could solve this issue, see this list: https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html Anyway you can usually check a laptop before paying for it. Also consider Apple laptops. Please note that you should use CURRENT branch use Intel GPUs at maximum especially OpenGL capabilities. There is also sometimes tricky to boot FreeBSD installer on todays laptops because of features like Fast Startup and Secure Boot. Here are some hints that can help you with that: https://goo.gl/7HAaDE Also I would like to recommend these articles: * https://unrelenting.technology/articles/freebsd-on-the-thinkpad-x240 * http://eax.me/freebsd-on-desktop-v2/ (use Google Translate) -- Best regards, Aleksander Alekseev http://eax.me/