From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 9 14:36:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18C1C16A46F for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:36:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 766BE43D70 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:36:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k59Ea7HG011830; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 09:36:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <44898760.9000404@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:36:16 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060506) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shane J Pearson References: <200606091328.k59DSThD012167@nic-naa.net> <40FC69A5-A5A9-4C62-8F29-89F193E2D55F@netspace.net.au> In-Reply-To: <40FC69A5-A5A9-4C62-8F29-89F193E2D55F@netspace.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1523/Fri Jun 9 02:10:10 2006 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New or used laptop recommendation(s) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:36:09 -0000 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------