What laptop do you recommend?

Marcin Jessa lists at yazzy.org
Mon Mar 13 14:45:01 UTC 2006


On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300
freebsd at meijome.net wrote:

> hi everyone,
> I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work
> WELL with freeBSD? e.g.:
> 
> ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible)
> PATA / SATA with no problems
> all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound,
> touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course
> 
> Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips.
> 
> >From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do
> >DELLs
> (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba,
> but I don't think they are so well supported.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :)

I've Thinkpad R50e. Everything works fine and it makes an excellent
work tool :
http://www.yazzy.org/configs/freebsd/thinkpad/

Price of those thinkpads is yet another pluss.


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