From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Feb 18 20:28:12 2017 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 77BEBCE5B16 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:28:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from four.harrisons@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ua0-x232.google.com (mail-ua0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c08::232]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 30C18281 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:28:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from four.harrisons@googlemail.com) Received: by mail-ua0-x232.google.com with SMTP id x12so47274899uax.0 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2017 12:28:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=9+qlhHVkV6s65WYaD47WF6sQR38RsCE0YysmSOlSve8=; b=RIZmU6O/EJX3xlyJj1aI1+GxtL3Q7svWkP+aWhsi75kIzlLXpLwQX0OJ+BRMKpEV91 OoGUIbfwgBTD0GyzJp2NHmxI5Kni9Pzs00gsKpxx7eUBl+wcStaKhD4Hn3HDEdaq1j+v wQ1bRNSrXtA0EG/SHojkb1vpdRpT8K1WGbLVcfA9rbRb2jXax2LDkSNbndwoPYJynvNK ZCeBEQ/55FzJLePjfMh+Q48pUjQv1TOGMjeRx4m8iuC1gGx2Gy6U4CffWJDORHJk5NpK /JifwdZQb1lvOTWIHNlSwCs8THPewSxJf8isiNCdqAJhT87HapoxWqhnmy4/2DKwduAN OgXA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=9+qlhHVkV6s65WYaD47WF6sQR38RsCE0YysmSOlSve8=; b=mn4RHLZ1Lsozk6258eFkhKKIbmkNLN9wFNCz9a6KmXcvY4l4M0uoovWdAwd5ZBTja5 GDhY2hYpyuw6O2y+V84UeRoom/QBYcOaVw/Li+Rz3/fYCbfQL4VeECqz6TU/8SzKQNuR oHGUWGiqYSe6NegBaDd4nbW90dMtech8LAXE6V8I0+00H/Acnh4Pbys7N0HlGSV9R8Dz btcOPhJ9cZjybFMY6cVpaYod+777yOtyF00zi/CLgo1SdeiL/6cLQxbNZe3ZI3yRQ9yu 4TurWrS5Ev5K/il7FHID5/BKllWDLTQdnwSydqH3FFVODp6qsKF9pbjW6vT9CCdYtu1Y D2Bg== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39mA+aga/zNOszTXSGxtHwXutQyofVWfU0JlAmFH18eXdombNtFwZ+oRoe0aMQbzgKigX7Y7m971BG16kA== X-Received: by 10.176.64.72 with SMTP id h66mr7084423uad.176.1487449691331; Sat, 18 Feb 2017 12:28:11 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.102.199 with HTTP; Sat, 18 Feb 2017 12:28:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.102.199 with HTTP; Sat, 18 Feb 2017 12:28:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20170218175245.13311.qmail@ary.lan> References: <20170218175245.13311.qmail@ary.lan> From: Peter Harrison Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:28:10 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Laptop recommendation To: John Levine Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:28:12 -0000 On 18 Feb 2017 5:53 pm, "John Levine" 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.