From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 13:10:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0863C16A4CE; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:10:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B1E243D2F; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:10:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from [172.18.2.1] (axiell-gw1.novi.dk [130.225.63.24]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8RDAmS4051279; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:10:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <41581154.9090804@DeepCore.dk> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:10:44 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040802) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josef Karthauser References: <20040927111438.GA865@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040927111438.GA865@genius.tao.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:10:59 -0000 Josef Karthauser wrote: > My Dell Inspiron 5000e is getting a bit long in the tooth, and the > keyboard has just packed in :( so I'm in the market for a new laptop. > Does anyone have any recommendations for me? In particular I want a > working ACPI/suspend interface and this Dell has never been supported > well - fans on all the time, doesn't resume properly, etc. >=20 > My previous machine was a Sony Vaio which I loved, but was fairly > expensive and the repair support wasn't very good. Dell's support was > much better and I'd prefer a Dell I think, but I don't know whether mor= e > recent models fair better with power management support, etc. >=20 > Any helpful hints would be gladly received. Got and Acer Travelmate 8005Lmi here, works pretty well, and=20 sufficiently fast (make buildworld in ~35mins). Everything except suspend/resume works on releng_5/current as is, you=20 need ndis for the builtin Intel wireless though. Havn't played with the bluetooth stuff yet, so no idea there. Note that ACPI suspend/resume has been broken on several laptops since=20 early august, it worked just fine before that, so its a matter of our=20 ACPI support getting its thing together again... --=20 -S=F8ren