Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 17:13:02 -0400 From: Manas B <b.manas.88@gmail.com> To: "Brian W." <brian@brianwhalen.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: advice for buying a laptop Message-ID: <2A9191BF-029B-4728-AE90-B3EF8689A8FC@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADV=szVjr0pN-3pY3krc%2B3ARu5T9YNoA%2BrLSKc6Zxd50%2Bcbgqw@mail.gmail.com> References: <nj9kmu$7r8$1@ger.gmane.org> <CADV=szVjr0pN-3pY3krc%2B3ARu5T9YNoA%2BrLSKc6Zxd50%2Bcbgqw@mail.gmail.com>
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Lenovo's T430s is a good laptop. I haven't used it with FreeBSD but I have been running Debian on it for over a year. I am running Debian testing on it now, with KDE. It works generally well, krunner crashes frequently and I recently had to get drivers for the bluetooth card but otherwise it is stable and reliable. Manas From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jun 8 21:43:12 2016 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE8AB706FD for <freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org>; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 21:43:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.70.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F069F1206 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 21:43:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id ADE05CB8CA7; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 16:43:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 128.135.52.6 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Wed, 8 Jun 2016 16:43:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <45577.128.135.52.6.1465422185.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <861t478ppu.fsf@WorkBox.Home> References: <nj9kmu$7r8$1@ger.gmane.org> <861t478ppu.fsf@WorkBox.Home> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 16:43:05 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: advice for buying a laptop From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Brandon J. Wandersee" <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com> Cc: "Christian Baer" <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 21:43:12 -0000 On Wed, June 8, 2016 2:06 pm, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote: > >> 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. > > I've been using the T520 as my primary machine for almost five years, > and love it. As Niklaas said, make sure you get the model that does not > have Nvidia Optimus; I would add that you should make sure the model(s) > they have for sale feature the Intel WiFi chip, rather than the stock > Realtek > chip. Intel wireless has worked flawlessly for me, while the Realtek > that originally came with my machine would drop connections at least a > couple times per day. With Intel WiFi adapters I would suggest to stay away from latest ones, specifically 7xxx and 6xxx (like 6205, 7260, etc). They will not work (did not work for me). They need some modifications to wireless stack, after which their drivers written for Linux could be adopted/modified for FreeBSD (as far as I understood the developer who can do/does that from his post). If I'm wrong here, I really would like to see reference to what I can do to make one of these WiFi adapters work... Valeri > > If you wish to dual-boot, the machine does allow you to connect multiple > disks to it---the optical drive can be removed and replaced with an > Ultrabay adapter for another 2.5-inch disk, and there's an mSATA port > beneath the keyboard. That would give you a lot more flexibility and > simplicity, and a lot less hassle, than trying to install two operating > systems on one disk. > > -- > > :: Brandon J. Wandersee > :: brandon.wandersee@gmail.com > :: -------------------------------------------------- > :: 'The best design is as little design as possible.' > :: --- Dieter Rams ---------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 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" > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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