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Date:      18 Feb 2017 15:57:14 -0500
From:      "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To:        "Peter Harrison" <four.harrisons@googlemail.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Laptop recommendation
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> This is probably heresy, but after my last Thinkpad, I got a Macbook
> and run Freebsd in a Virtualbox VM.  It works great.

> Not heresy to me - interesting thoughtful. What's the impact on battery of
> running virtualbox all the time?

It hasn't been a problem, I think it can tell when nothing is going on.
If you want, you can pause and resume the BSD VM with a single keystroke.


Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly



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