Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 03:12:02 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advice for buying a laptop Message-ID: <20160609031202.79225671.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <nj9kmu$7r8$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <nj9kmu$7r8$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 19:30:05 +0200, Christian Baer wrote: > It may be that I am strange, but I actually like the older T-Series by > IBM or Lenovo much more than most newer machines. They have great > keyboards and the machines themselves are hard to break. They are just > built well. [...] I use a IBM T60p and Lenovo R61i myself - "still" great machines to work with. Especially when you use an SSD and think about what software you install, you get up-to-date (!) average performance out of those things, even when they are already 5+ years old. :-) Last year I made a Dell Latitude D630 with FreeBSD 10, and it works better than my home Aldi PC! :-) > I don't care about gaming performance. That's not what I need it for. > Most of my work will include writing (probably 80% TeX, lots of emails, > some letters). There will be some work done specifically for my sports > club (which requires special Windows software) - and yes, I will try to > get it to run with wine. :-) There will be some Firefoxing and some > video watching while I am on the train. This is the basic usage profile. Nothing the mentioned machines cannot handle. > I will be running a dual-boot system with Windows (hopefully 7) and I > also want to run FreeBSD. This is where you guys come in. Laptops often > contain evil hardware which will not work too well with Linux, BSD and > the like because of missing or broken drivers. Will this be a concern > with the T520? Even if the work I do would be possible in theory, I do > not plan on working through a frame buffer! If you can, use a live system to check (start from USB or CD/DVD). But as far as I know, all the parts of the machines I own are fully supported, even the wireless. The only thing I really didn't care about is the fingerprint reader as I have no use for it. > Here is some info about the laptop: > https://support.lenovo.com/de/en/documents/pd015761 > > Do you think that this machine will work well with FreeBSD on it? Is > there some other machine I should take a look at? While looking around, > I noticed the T520 and liked it (because I have used it before), but I > don't know every model out there and thus I am open to suggestions. Looks good from that list. But it's probably a good idea to give it a try with a test system prior to paying. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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