From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 06:07:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D687416A420; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:07:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5936543D46; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:07:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from default.chvlva.adelphia.net ([69.160.66.115]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060314060727.OWTI8442.mta10.adelphia.net@default.chvlva.adelphia.net>; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:07:27 -0500 Received: by default.chvlva.adelphia.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ABB27B66E; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:07:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:07:32 -0500 From: Parv To: Norberto Meijome Message-ID: <20060314060732.GA2435@holestein.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Norberto Meijome , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060313103240.ie1bevcdijs4coko@webmail.meijome.net> <20060314113412.3470fde5@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060314113412.3470fde5@localhost> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop do you recommend? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:07:29 -0000 in message <20060314113412.3470fde5@localhost>, wrote Norberto Meijome thusly... > > On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 > freebsd@meijome.net wrote: > > > I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work > > WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: > > > > ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) > > PATA / SATA with no problems I don't think Thinkpad has [SP]ATA things (yet). > > all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, > > touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course Thinkpad T42 is great in that regard, except that the use of dri w/ suspend/resume causes lockup. You would need to pick either dri or suspend/resume. If you can, try to get a laptop either without a 802.11g (so that you can decide which one to buy) or buy one supported by ath driver. I have T42 w/ Intel 2200BG card, and it using w/ iwi driver (net/iwi-firmware port). Here, connected w/ Linksys WRT54G wireless router/switch/AP, iwi interface|driver needs to be reset just about every two hours (when i start getting "TKIP ICV mismatch on decrypt" message. > > Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. Can't say about Thinkpad on that. > > >From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so > > >do DELLs > > (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get > > Toshiba, but I don't think they are so well supported. Boy do those Toshiba's "TruBrite" screen looked amazing (in a chain store). On almost all the displayed laptops, however, the keyboards are buggered up, mainly on the right side. Keys were shifted around or had really unusual area of key caps. What is amazing about the messed up keyboard layout is that there was much wasted space on the sides (owning to the wider screen) & in front of the keyboard. > What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? People generally advise to get one from "business" line (used to be "Latitude" for some time in past; don't know about the present/future), not the "home" one ("Inspiron"). > Thinkpads are a bit pricey for me atm. T4[0-3]-generation should be affordable by now, around USD1[0-2]00. > (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could well be wrong...) Yes, some Dell Inspiron. - Parv --