Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:47:41 -0700 From: Fred C <fred@bsdhost.net> To: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: Joe Demeny <jd1987@borozo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop advice Message-ID: <486D09FD-3808-4627-A90D-1E343B76122E@bsdhost.net> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20080321084645.02743ce0@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <200803210556.50743.jd1987@borozo.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20080321084645.02743ce0@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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On Mar 21, 2008, at 6:48 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: > At 04:56 AM 3/21/2008, Joe Demeny wrote: >> I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these: >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123 >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834114430 >> >> Does anyone have experience with these? >> >> Any suggestions for other comparable choices? > > I would choose the Toshiba, much better quality and support. You > may want to look at Lenovo's too. > > In a laptop I would look at the graphics if you plan to run X. In laptops you want to look at everything. If one of the chipset is not supported or badly you cannot like on a desktop change a component by an another. You want to go here http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html and search if every component of you laptop is supported. -fred- -- Fred C! PGP-KeyID: E7EA02EC3B487EE9 PGP-FingerPrint: A906101E2CCDBB18D7BD09AEE7EA02EC3B487EE9
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