Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:57:25 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop Message-ID: <20071204005725.GB67397@demeter.hydra> In-Reply-To: <4752F30C.4060906@math.arizona.edu> References: <e35b88b23867a.47528339@us.army.mil> <4752F30C.4060906@math.arizona.edu>
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On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 11:01:48AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > ThinkPad T23 is around $200 and ThinkPad T30 is around $300. They would > work like a charm with FreeBSD. > If you are going to spend $500 you might as well by new lap top. > Personally, I would not buy anything else but ThinkPad T series. I have a special place in my heart for Thinkpads. They serve me well. A Thinkpad with Intel wireless and either Intel or NVIDIA graphics should work just fine. At the moment, ATI/AMD graphics can still be a problem, though AMD (new owners of ATI) has recently been working on open source drivers, which may reverse that trend in the future. My Thinkpad R52 works like a charm. T series Thinkpads are basically the big brother of R series Thinkpads, and also work exceedingly well (my favorite laptop of all time was a T24p). If you want to be a little more adventurous, you could always look into an ASUS Eee PC. It's a tiny little laptop that comes with a custom Debian derivative pre-installed. I hear it works beautifully with OpenBSD, which makes me think FreeBSD would probably work on it as well. Of course, if I ever got one, I'd probably just use OpenBSD on it. After all, something that small and (compared to a Thinkpad) limited would probably not be something on which I'd need to run the most demanding mutlimedia applications or something like that. It's also less than $400. My next laptop will almost certainly be another Thinkpad, though. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production."
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