From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 18:52:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D10D1106564A for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:52:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: from albert.catwhisker.org (m209-73.dsl.rawbw.com [198.144.209.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD2B58FC12 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:52:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from albert.catwhisker.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by albert.catwhisker.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5PIP2JX068279; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@albert.catwhisker.org) Received: (from david@localhost) by albert.catwhisker.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p5PIP2te068278; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:25:02 -0700 From: David Wolfskill To: Bastian Rieck Message-ID: <20110625182502.GF29050@albert.catwhisker.org> Mail-Followup-To: David Wolfskill , Bastian Rieck , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lUFOiBjYbj2M+tdK" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations? 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: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:52:57 -0000 --lUFOiBjYbj2M+tdK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 07:34:24PM +0200, Bastian Rieck wrote: > Dear list, >=20 > I need to replace my old IBM Thinkpad R50e, which is running FreeBSD > 8.2. Currently, my favoured replacement is a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E520. > .... I rather like the laptop I've been using for the past several months: a Dell Precision M4400. I track stable/8 & head (in different slices) on it daily; it normally takes about an hour to take care of both of those. And it has a 1920x1200 display -- as well as 2 sets of 3 mouse buttons each (each of which works as expected). I have found that I sometimes manage to slide the "WiFi disable" switch to an unwanted setting accidentally, and the power connection slips out a little too easily, but those are about the worst things I can think of with respect to the hardware. Peace, david --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --lUFOiBjYbj2M+tdK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk4GJ/0ACgkQmprOCmdXAD1zwwCfXhJwS5tI0+yOT5SuEp58K0JU jWQAnRlUJkuYXcjkzFmZ2Wm0sGr8URT2 =7Nzn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lUFOiBjYbj2M+tdK--