Laptop suggestions?

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Achim Patzner <ap at bnc.net> wrote:
> Am 30.07.2008 um 18:40 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav:
>>
>> I don't understand what Macs have to do with this - we're talking about
>> iX Systems's made-for-BSD laptop.
>
> The thread started with someone asking for a mobile computer that
> would support FreeBSD sufficiently and nobody came up with something
> fitting the bill (and being available somewhere). Considering the
> picture you're seeing at any place where more than two hardcore Unix
> users assemble you're seeing a majority of Macs. There has to be an
> obvious reason for that... I tried to break that habit more than once
> but right now the only comfortable way of running FreeBSD on a laptop
> is VMware Fusion on a Mac. Reading this entire thread convinced me
> even more.

Please define "comfortable". I've been running FreeBSD 7.0 pretty
comfortably on my HP nx6320 for several months now. I never attempted
to use neither Bluetooth nor the fingerprint reader, so I don't miss
them. The only real drawback I've found was that the memory card
reader does not work. I also ran 8.0-CURRENT on a HP 6910p because 7.0
did not support the WI-FI card.

--
Carlos Santos
Working, but not speaking (or advertising)  for HP :-)