Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 13:07:32 -0700 From: "Brian W." <brian@brianwhalen.net> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: advice for buying a laptop Message-ID: <CADV=szVjr0pN-3pY3krc%2B3ARu5T9YNoA%2BrLSKc6Zxd50%2Bcbgqw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <nj9kmu$7r8$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <nj9kmu$7r8$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Any of the Lenovos with ThinkPad branding have a very good keyboard. They are often very non windows OS compatible and a fine choice. Brian On Jun 8, 2016 10:39 AM, "Christian Baer" <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hey guy and gals! :-) > > For most of my life I have lived quite happily without a mobile computer > (as in a laptop). I do own an 8" Android tablet which to me is more like > a phone than anything else. It's not really good for writing longer text > s. > > The future has it in for me in that I will traveling a fair bit among > other things for my sports club. Because I need a computer on these > trips I intend to buy a laptop within the next 6 weeks or so. > > It may be that I am strange, but I actually like the older T-Series by > IBM or Lenovo much more than most newer machines. They have great > keyboards and the machines themselves are hard to break. They are just > built well. There is a store near where I live where they sell > refurbished Laptops and they have a whole bunch of T520s there - which > is exactly the model I am currently looking at. Since I am buying this > with my own money, I don't mind spending a little less. :-) > > I don't care about gaming performance. That's not what I need it for. > Most of my work will include writing (probably 80% TeX, lots of emails, > some letters). There will be some work done specifically for my sports > club (which requires special Windows software) - and yes, I will try to > get it to run with wine. :-) There will be some Firefoxing and some > video watching while I am on the train. This is the basic usage profile. > > I will be running a dual-boot system with Windows (hopefully 7) and I > also want to run FreeBSD. This is where you guys come in. Laptops often > contain evil hardware which will not work too well with Linux, BSD and > the like because of missing or broken drivers. Will this be a concern > with the T520? Even if the work I do would be possible in theory, I do > not plan on working through a frame buffer! > > Here is some info about the laptop: > https://support.lenovo.com/de/en/documents/pd015761 > > Do you think that this machine will work well with FreeBSD on it? Is > there some other machine I should take a look at? While looking around, > I noticed the T520 and liked it (because I have used it before), but I > don't know every model out there and thus I am open to suggestions. > > Thanks for your input and advice! > > Best regards, > Chris > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) > > iL4EAREKAGYFAldYVh1fFIAAAAAALgAoaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl > bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDgzRDQzNjY2NUYzMDVBMTYxMDY0ODYwNzMy > MDIxMzQyODdFMUJGQjIACgkQMgITQofhv7J2gQD/U6qMTy/BTOjgJQQrYRt42AtG > JXcPR5yH/SbprT5GgGYBAJFHSrvcu1WAJfpNx7Oq71JyGq/O3PCETF3++oZ0BMLD > =ha3t > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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