laptop for -current

[Pierre Weis]

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> I'm using a Dell D600, and it's excellent..
> 
> Eric
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> Eric Anderson     Sr. Systems Administrator    Centaur Technology
> Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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I'm also running -current on a Dell laptop (a Precision M60 with the
large (1920x1200 pixels) screen). It works pretty well, although not
perfectly: I have not managed to have ACPI working properly and I have
problems with the Nvidia driver (I had to revert to the XFree nv
driver to get X running). Also, the FireFox port can be compiled and
installed but the resulting program core dumps too often to be
usable. This may be because I'm using a cutting edge X-server from XFree86
(version 4.4.99.9); anyway, I am now obliged to use Netscape which is
not my browser of choice :(

On the other hand, the OS is rock solid and all the sub-systems work
perfectly: USB1, USB2, FireWire, PC-cards, CD/RW/DVD reader,
Bluetooth, the Broadcom NICs (either the 10/100/1000 Mb/s wired
ethernet, or the 802.11 a/b/g wireless card)!

To my knowledge, this OS is the best fit for this machine :)

Also, the machine itself is excellent: it runs fast, has a silent and
fast hard disk and the screen is a dream. This laptop is just a bit
heavy to carry and it pumps the battery way too quickly (in my case, 2
hours and a half is enough to dry it up).

In conclusion: a very good OS/machine combination, that would be
excellent if only the ACPI system could slow down the processor and
put the machine asleep...

Hope this helps,

Pierre Weis

INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis at inria.fr, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis/