From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 19:16:18 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 72365106566C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:16:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC928FC0A for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:16:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [89.204.137.177] (helo=tiny.Sisis.de.) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QaYKs-0007Aa-Be; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:16:09 +0200 Received: from tiny.Sisis.de. (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tiny.Sisis.de. (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p5PJHDR2001204; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:17:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by tiny.Sisis.de. (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id p5PJH9Xr001203; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:17:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: tiny.Sisis.de.: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:17:08 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: David Wolfskill , Bastian Rieck , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110625191708.GA1182@tiny> References: <20110625182502.GF29050@albert.catwhisker.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20110625182502.GF29050@albert.catwhisker.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Originating-IP: 89.204.137.177 Cc: Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:16:18 -0000 El día Saturday, June 25, 2011 a las 11:25:02AM -0700, David Wolfskill escribió: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 07:34:24PM +0200, Bastian Rieck wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > 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. I run a bunch of laptops/netbooks, all with some older 8-CURRENT or now 9-CURRENT (head): Acer Aspire One D250 Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M1437G Asus EeePC 900 Dell M4400 Ofc, every laptop has its own problem, for example with sound, and needs special attention (read: finding a solution); concerning graphic, it's not an FreeBSD issue, but havin support in Xorg for the chipset; the best way, if youd dealer allows it, would be to boot the laptop in question with a recent Knoppix DVD to see in detail what is in the box and then check the FreeBSD man(4) pages if it is supported; > 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. I have the same problem with the M4400 :-) it's just a bad hardware/case design; matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/