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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: Recommended laptop for FreeBSD 10.2 Xfce workstation?
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On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 13:21:08 -0700, Sergei G wrote:
> Older Dell laptop has been ok for me D630 (I don't remember if wireless
> worked or not).

I have successfully instantiated a Dell Latitude D630 with
FreeBSD 10. Its wireless adapter is supported. All other
components (such as regular network, audio and docking station)
also work as expected. However, that is a quite "outdated"
machine, but this definitely does _not_ imply that it's
useless. I made it run Gnome which (in retrospect) was a
stupid decision. ;-)

Other older devices, such as IBM Thinkpad (now Lenovo) models
T60p, R61i and R500 also work good with FreeBSD.


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Polytropon
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