Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 03:07:30 -0600 From: chris <chris@bsdjunk.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp Subject: Re: looking for new netbook Message-ID: <149f5a7bbfc.10a33e3a4597260.8616295839777906926@bsdjunk.com> In-Reply-To: <20141128081127.GA1544@unixarea.DDR.dd> References: <CAASDrVnok2YcCs7qJ1E%2BiXkWO1xVA_EPJmCJA=nr_jbp2etC-Q@mail.gmail.com> <20141128040356.28633.qmail@ary.lan> <20141128081127.GA1544@unixarea.DDR.dd>
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Just go to your local Sears, Bestbuy and pick one ? However I have a Lenovo G480 which is rather useless on FreeBSD I am hoping= I can create drivers to support the NIC/WiFi card in it one day. ------------------------------------- Chris Petrik FreeBSD Developer E on FreeBSD ------ As in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know its true n= ame. -- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie ---- On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 02:11:27 -0600 Matthias Apitz<guru@unixarea.de> wr= ote ----=20 > El d=C3=ADa Friday, November 28, 2014 a las 04:03:56AM -0000, John Levin= e escribi=C3=B3: >=20 > > In article <CAASDrVnok2YcCs7qJ1E+iXkWO1xVA_EPJmCJA=3Dnr_jbp2etC-Q@mail= .gmail.com> you write: > > >Personally I haven't had so much time lately to contribute but I hope= we > > >can have FreeBSD running on Macbook Air soon... > >=20 > > I run FreeBSD in a a Virtualbox virtual machine on my Macbook. It is > > straightforward to have X clients in the VM talk to windows in the > > native xquartz X server. >=20 > Thanks for all feedback I received. To make this clear: I want to have a > netbook type laptop (as laptop I use Dell E6330 which works just fine > with FreeBSD). I was asking for a 10 or 11 inch size model. >=20 > Re/ Mac, for a bunch of reasons Mac is a no go for me, not as laptop and > not as mobile cellphone. One reason you can Google for with > 'Apple stories'. >=20 > > This works for me a lot better than native FreeBSD on a laptop -- my > > last computer was a Lenovo X400 running FreeBSD natively, and I wasted > > too much time trying to get Chrome and other third party X apps to > > work. Now I can run Chrome on MacOS, and the stuff under FreeBSD that > > works better there. >=20 > I can not remember any laptop which at the end not worked fine. Of > course, one has to pre-check the components and maybe change, for > example. the Wifi chip or use an USB dongle as Wifi. >=20 > matthias >=20 > --=20 > Matthias Apitz, guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-170-452721= 1 > 1989-2014: The Wall was torn down so that we go to war together again. > El Muro ha sido derribado para que nos unimos en ir a la guerra otra vez= . > Diese Grenze wurde aufgehoben damit wir gemeinsam wieder in den Krieg zi= ehen. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org"
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