From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Apr 2 16:40:06 2016 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 E22ADB00091 for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2016 16:40:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech-lists@zyxst.net) Received: from new2-smtp.messagingengine.com (new2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.224]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B43A3132D for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2016 16:40:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech-lists@zyxst.net) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailnew.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98AF320B for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2016 12:39:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 02 Apr 2016 12:39:59 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zyxst.net; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=O78RnClLs3rIpN66BbCKI6p6cXY=; b=VDocio gZAmleYILLxm2gbkMSdFOMYsJn2Spv3Ba9E0lS7IKqCh4VqQudmuArOkgy82n8Ac 6NpiccN9iN+Vo553tKHNX9IJUfKhqWRWIlFtlusJJ8gLNpOQ6w3jWo6qEYD1KojH /1r3txbxvuye26FjKmY9Qj5oad/cquvuIDdNw= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=O78RnClLs3rIpN6 6BbCKI6p6cXY=; b=sHXSEAEqvAjuiMIHoGSox8Y8anvL6Ghlru0p2z7eZEu0jRl ebDHqx0mGQ8L98DiMtNgt6ZvRVRIKFINCU+hzsmdtPVliGttjU4s5J8uMG/f6J1o r27mvCUk377GPMF0nk+DQ33IY4klWhB2rjzm7QylXr1taK/G5Kwv+ASYbQQM= X-Sasl-enc: M7os1bE8XwGFL0m4sa7w2QJq85aDFS32Fuzyft76Z4Fy 1459615199 Received: from pumpkin.growveg.org (roobarb.growveg.org [62.49.247.174]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 292F86800B4 for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2016 12:39:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Recommended laptop for FreeBSD 10.2 Xfce workstation? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <56FB5230.2070703@holgerdanske.com> From: tech-lists Message-ID: <56FFF5DC.2000904@zyxst.net> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 17:39:56 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56FB5230.2070703@holgerdanske.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2016 16:40:07 -0000 On 30/03/2016 05:12, David Christensen wrote: > freebsd-questions: > > Thank you for the replies so far. :-) > > > Is there such a thing as a "reference laptop" that FreeBSD is developed > and validated against? > > > Failing that, I'm going to lower the bar and ask if there are *any* > laptops that meet my basic needs OOTB: Hi, FWIW I have had good results with ASUS laptops and notebooks, with a minimum of tweaking. wifi is important to me and all the asus notebooks and laptops I've had, have had atheros chipsets which have been well supported. My advice would be to ditch the optical media requirement of the device itself, and search for an asus with usb3, then go to a realworld shop with a bootable -CURRENT on usb and test it if they'll let you. Get an external portable optical media device. I use a samsung BD-506 which works well. A word to the wise - OOTB functionality is a mirage. Keeping it to a miinimum is realistic. -- J.