Recommended laptops for FreeBSD 6.x ...

[Andrew Elmore]

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:28:44PM +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> >I'm looking to purchase a new laptop and was wondering which laptops are
> >recommended for a high-end system.
> 
> IBM thinkpad for sure.

I've been very happy with all my Thinkpads, having run FreeBSD on a
570, A21p, and now a T42p.

I don't use the fancy 3d graphics, and the vanilla xorg server
works well enough with the ATI graphics that I can use xrandr to
have two displays.  Suspending via ACPI works, the IBM branded Atheros
wifi works fine, etc.

Caveats:
* Apparently the newer dual core chips aren't able to suspend
and resume with FreeBSD.
* Be sure to choose the IBM wifi, as the Intel wifi works poorly with
FreeBSD.
* In the modern world, the Intel graphics option has the best vendor
support in the opensource driver.  Also, this option seems to have the
longest battery life.

AE