recommendations for laptop and desktop

[John Nielsen]

On Jul 12, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Zoran Kolic wrote:

> Comes a time to ask again and again the same question.
> More I read, less I know. Just as I found that candida-
> te for my new laptop, dell latitude 13 comes with anti-
> glare screen and all hardware well supported, forums
> reveal that it's 320gb hard drive heats a lot. It makes
> vostro v13 better runner, but...
> How sounds the idea to have a place on freebsd site for
> such kind of data/wiki? Laptop recommendations should
> include new models only, since older ones are not easy to
> find in usable condition. Also, making a go for home
> node, cold and quiet box, with parts fine under freebsd
> is not so obvious. Especially for newer graphic chips.
> It shows that my first idea to get cold phenom II on the
> integrated mobo fails on almost all parts.
> Yep, some kind of wiki, saying "phenom to use under 8.2
> to be cold and chip to find for amd mobo to take small
> amount of power might be..."

There is this list for laptops:
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/

> At last, sad thing is that only before mentioned dell
> comes supported and with matte screen. What is the box
> you would recommend, not going deep into past decade?

See the recent thread on the freebsd-mobile list with subject "Laptop recommendations?"

JN