Sony VGN-A 197XP? (Re: Laptop recommendations?)

[Josef Karthauser]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:55:44AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> Because I'm a mug, and that they look nice, I'm considering a new Vaio.
> The model that has me wetting myself in anticipation is that VGN-A
> 197XP, which has a 1.8GHz centrino with a 2mb cache, a 17" 1920x1200
> screen and an 80gb harddrive.  It's lovely.
> 
> The big question is how well does FreeBSD run on it?  I absolutely need
> to have suspend/resume support as it only has a single battery with a
> life of around 2.5 hours (no second battery slot :().
> 
> Has anyone tried FreeBSD on anything like this?  What's the chances that
> the wireless 802.11g and bluetooth will work?

A followup.  My girlfriend went to the US recently and brought me back
the american version of this one the VGN-A290.  It's lovely and under
5.3 the power management works wonderfully :) Thanks ACPI guys.

Joe.

ps. it's not quite the same spec as the VGN-A 297, missing the blue
tooth basically :(.  Still it's pretty nice though :).
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