From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 09:06:26 2003 Return-Path: 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 AA75D16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:06:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu (GS166.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.205.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C14543FBD for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:06:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu) Sender: dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu To: Timothy Opie References: <20031118115649.58e3574f.timopie@dodo.com.au> From: Dan Pelleg Date: 18 Nov 2003 12:05:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20031118115649.58e3574f.timopie@dodo.com.au> Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:06:26 -0000 Timothy Opie writes: > Hi all, > > I am patiently saving money to purchase a laptop, hopefully by the end of this year. I would like to know if there are any laptop manufacturers that specificially support BSD, and by supporting they choose specific default hardware configurations that will give the least problems on BSD. > > I did a BSD-Google search for laptop and notebook, and noticed that Dell came up more than any other company. I have been contemplating getting the Dell Inspiron 5150. > I noticed that too when doing google/bsd searches. Part of this is due to the fact that the Dell site has a directory called "bsd", presumably some internal acronym unrelated to BSD. Google mis-classifies those pages as BSD-related. For example, the following is a first-page hit for "laptop": http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/products/model_latit_latit_d800.htm -- Dan Pelleg