What laptop do you recommend?

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Mon Mar 13 17:17:13 UTC 2006


> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:06:30 +0100
> From: Matthias Schmidt <schmidtm at mathematik.uni-marburg.de>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> * 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.:
> 
> My personal favorite is an IBM Thinkpad Laptop.  I have a Thinkpad T43
> and T23 and both models run FreeBSD 6.0.  Have a look at my
> Thinkpad+FreeBSD page:
> 
> 	http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/ibm/

Oops! I forgot one VERY important detail. The BIOS update on 29-Nov-2005
is very important! Without it there were several problems with ACPI and
suspend/resume. Be sure to update the BIOS and Embedded Controller
firmware (available at the Lenovo support site
(http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/homeLenovo.do?country=us).
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


More information about the freebsd-mobile mailing list