Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:28:10 +0000 From: Peter Harrison <four.harrisons@googlemail.com> To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Laptop recommendation Message-ID: <CAA3eX7ZB_UdOxEm7RqjDf6n2YPY-KLYgeF6CeZSQxkz86X3wZA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170218175245.13311.qmail@ary.lan> References: <CAA3eX7Z4zaEu%2BpAoJSYmCDs-TPSYMasutU6Y0Bk9Wq_gG2zNbA@mail.gmail.com> <20170218175245.13311.qmail@ary.lan>
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On 18 Feb 2017 5:53 pm, "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> wrote: This is probably heresy, but after my last Thinkpad, I got a Macbook and run Freebsd in a Virtualbox VM. It works great. I set it up so X applications in BSD talk to the native MacOS XQuartz server, and the Mac has an NFS server on the loopback interface so BSD can read and write the Mac's files. R's, John Not heresy to me - interesting thoughtful. What's the impact on battery of running virtualbox all the time? Cheers, Peter.
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