Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:36:16 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Shane J Pearson <shanejp@netspace.net.au> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New or used laptop recommendation(s) Message-ID: <44898760.9000404@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <40FC69A5-A5A9-4C62-8F29-89F193E2D55F@netspace.net.au> References: <200606091328.k59DSThD012167@nic-naa.net> <40FC69A5-A5A9-4C62-8F29-89F193E2D55F@netspace.net.au>
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Shane J Pearson wrote: > Hello Eric, > > On 2006.06.09, at 11:28 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere > wrote: > >> I've gone through a couple of Sony's, don't want to repeat that, and I'm >> looking for suggestions. > > I am also not very pleased with my Sony VAIO. I had been trying to get > the 6 Rel series going on my VGN-A49GP and now thanks to the FreeBSD > people I can run 6.1 on this machine. But now that I can finally run 6.1 > Rel, after 11 months of owning and having the machine almost always on > my desk (rarely moved), this $5,000 AU machine is dead. > > I am *really* glad that I paid the extra $250 for an extra 2 years on > the warrantee. But with the poor physical quality starting to show > through and the fact that it's now dead, I'm wondering if I should sell > it after getting it back from Sony repairs and cut my losses and get a > Thinkpad. Opening and closing it feels so very painfully plastic and > like something is going to break, the silver paint on the palm rests > even started wearing off after only 2 months or so. The BIOS options are > about as minimal as you can get and some BIOS functions don't even work > (has option to boot external device, but will not boot any USB or > firewire device, not even a Sony USB floppy drive). > > This was my first Sony laptop and will almost certainly be my last. I > would not recommend a Sony VAIO to my worst enemy. > > My girlfriend has a really nice IBM/Lenovo Z60t Thinkpad which I have > put a minimal 6.1 Rel install (CLI only) into a very small partition for > scripted whole-disk image backups for her. Can anyone report if sound is > supported yet on the Z60t under FreeBSD? I'm so impressed with the build > quality of this Thinkpad, that I'm kicking myself for not going with > what I knew were good quality machines. Did you try the recent patch sent to this very list? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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