Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:17:08 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, Bastian Rieck <bastian@tecroots.net>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations? Message-ID: <20110625191708.GA1182@tiny> In-Reply-To: <20110625182502.GF29050@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20110625182502.GF29050@albert.catwhisker.org>
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El día Saturday, June 25, 2011 a las 11:25:02AM -0700, David Wolfskill escribió: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 07:34:24PM +0200, Bastian Rieck wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > I need to replace my old IBM Thinkpad R50e, which is running FreeBSD > > 8.2. Currently, my favoured replacement is a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E520. > > .... > > I rather like the laptop I've been using for the past several months: a > Dell Precision M4400. I track stable/8 & head (in different slices) on > it daily; it normally takes about an hour to take care of both of those. I run a bunch of laptops/netbooks, all with some older 8-CURRENT or now 9-CURRENT (head): Acer Aspire One D250 Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M1437G Asus EeePC 900 Dell M4400 Ofc, every laptop has its own problem, for example with sound, and needs special attention (read: finding a solution); concerning graphic, it's not an FreeBSD issue, but havin support in Xorg for the chipset; the best way, if youd dealer allows it, would be to boot the laptop in question with a recent Knoppix DVD to see in detail what is in the box and then check the FreeBSD man(4) pages if it is supported; > And it has a 1920x1200 display -- as well as 2 sets of 3 mouse buttons > each (each of which works as expected). > > I have found that I sometimes manage to slide the "WiFi disable" switch > to an unwanted setting accidentally, and the power connection slips out > a little too easily, but those are about the worst things I can think of > with respect to the hardware. I have the same problem with the M4400 :-) it's just a bad hardware/case design; matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/
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