Buying a laptop - used

[Ian Smith]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 04:51:30 -1000, Parv wrote:
 > in message
 > <CAGk=YH4TpZULve4SzRhCuhOt8766mk-L-+fd=aaqD5M0=8U3Pw at mail.gmail.com>,
 > wrote arnab bhowmick thusly...
 > >
 > > Hi friends i want to buy a laptop. please recommend some brand
 > > that can easily install freebsd . please suggest me
 > > something(brand) as my old laptop stopped working for shortcircuit
 > > and i am in great trouble.
 > 
 > If you are not averse to buying a used 'puter ...
 > 
 > I am currently using a used Lenovo Thinkpad X200 with FreeBSD 8. I
 > have not tried using or setting at all any suspend-resume setting. A
 > 9-celll battery ([0], "47++", apparently bought new about 2-3 years
 > ago along with the 'puter) lasts for 4.5 hours.

I bought a used X200 a year ago without AC adaptor or battery, so bought 
it a new 6-cell battery (47+) and 65W P/S (about AU$150).  Using powerd 
- but not p4tcc or acpi_throttle - it runs almost 6 hours on battery 
just idling and over 4 hours with moderate use, so your 9-cell battery 
may be getting a bit old, and/or you haven't optimised power usage?

After a problem that affected many/most modern T and X series Lenovos 
regarding losing external USB ports on resume was resolved last year, 
suspend and resume work flawlesly; they're really nice little machines.

Arnab may not wish to buy anything as old as an X200 (C.2008), but could 
likely pick up an X210/220/230, or the larger T410/420/430 models at a 
good price.  Very latest models may still have some issues with video?

cheers, Ian

 >   - parv
 > 
 >   [0] http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/itemdetails/43R9255/460/D65CF46CB0DB412FA2E56C552E0D8A38#techspecs