From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 25 23:51:50 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 D619B16A403 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:51:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D4E44727 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:51:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so222916uge for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:51:49 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tXxwRZi+7r30csF+r4WM+LoMT9utvj7gU4vuPGzU7FEJB/Oha2/OrqrIwVdjXvxz2GWPJPzcO18qcjsyYMmbsw/minq6pCRXKt+nJyIzXRYu/lhpgMo8DOO4zOQ+8oWp6umYWMZ391NW+yjLqi5FmqgP/JftvHOmUzL7Ym7/Aek= Received: by 10.66.224.3 with SMTP id w3mr1844888ugg; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:51:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.86.18 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:51:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20610251651w530a07c2y10809f7a09ddd733@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:51:48 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20061025175825.CC9294504D@ptavv.es.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <80f4f2b20610250230v71343b2cie9934104eff60a98@mail.gmail.com> <20061025175825.CC9294504D@ptavv.es.net> Subject: Re: Some old fashioned assistance requested, and some oppinions wanted. 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: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:51:50 -0000 OK, though my biggest concern was how they treated their customers in hardware support. As a benchmark, Toshiba is the first company that could actually give me something as obscure as the PCMCIA controller chipset when I called - and this was the first layer of tech support. The vendors I had delt with previously couldn't even give me the video chipsets some times. The only one that this wasn't tested on lied and voided my warantee... I was so sick of them at that point, I couldn't bring up the energy to fight it until it was way too late. As for Toshiba, they have pretty much bent over backwards except where non-windows was concerned, and even there they had made some pretty decent efforts. I really don't want to loose that, but I also want to deal with my OS of choice. Also, because of my vision, and now that I actually have the money to afford a real laptop (and someone to buy my "old" one off me), it would be ideal for me to get a tablet. -Jim Stapleton On 10/25/06, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:30:04 -0400 > > From: "Jim Stapleton" > > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > > > addendum: > > > > How are the Lenovo notebooks, now that they are no longer associated > > with IBM whatsoever? > > That is a very broad and probably invalid statement as IBM has a > presence on the Lenovo board and ThinkPad development is still being > done in the US (North Carolina) by pretty much the same group of > engineers. Of course, there are likely some strategic changes from > Lenovo in China that are impacting things. > > The T60 Core Duo systems look pretty good, although they all come with > the dreaded 3945 wireless card. You can get am Athlon, but they are no > longer "standard" upgrades. You get the system either without wireless or > you replace the installed wireless card with the Atheros. > > HDA audio seems to be working, but I have done no serious testing since > my laptop is an older T43 and the owner of the T60 does not use FreeBSD > on it. > > The only REALLY new ThinkPad member is the Z series and I have no > experience with them. > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 > > >