From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 4 00:56:54 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35AB816A419 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:56:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-43.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-43.bluehost.com [69.89.18.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0920313C45D for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:56:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 9292 invoked by uid 0); 4 Dec 2007 00:56:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by mailproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 2007 00:56:53 -0000 Received: from c-24-9-123-251.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.123.251] helo=demeter.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IzM5k-0000gN-Sx for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:56:53 -0700 Received: from demeter.hydra (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lB40vQ2D073262 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:57:26 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (from ren@localhost) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id lB40vP1a073261 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:57:25 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) X-Authentication-Warning: demeter.hydra: ren set sender to perrin@apotheon.com using -f Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:57:25 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071204005725.GB67397@demeter.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4752F30C.4060906@math.arizona.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4752F30C.4060906@math.arizona.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.net} {sentby:bopbeforesmtp 24.9.123.251 authed with apotheon.com} X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - box183.bluehost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [737 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - apotheon.com Subject: Re: laptop 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: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:56:54 -0000 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."