looking for new netbook

[chris]

Just go to your local Sears, Bestbuy and pick one ?

However I have a Lenovo G480 which is rather useless on FreeBSD I am hoping I can create drivers to support the NIC/WiFi card in it one day.

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Chris Petrik
FreeBSD Developer
E on FreeBSD
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---- On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 02:11:27 -0600 Matthias Apitz<guru at unixarea.de> wrote ---- 
 > El día Friday, November 28, 2014 a las 04:03:56AM -0000, John Levine escribió:
 > 
 > > In article <CAASDrVnok2YcCs7qJ1E+iXkWO1xVA_EPJmCJA=nr_jbp2etC-Q at mail.gmail.com> you write:
 > > >Personally I haven't had so much time lately to contribute but I hope we
 > > >can have FreeBSD running on Macbook Air soon...
 > > 
 > > I run FreeBSD in a a Virtualbox virtual machine on my Macbook.  It is
 > > straightforward to have X clients in the VM talk to windows in the
 > > native xquartz X server.
 > 
 > Thanks for all feedback I received. To make this clear: I want to have a
 > netbook type laptop (as laptop I use Dell E6330 which works just fine
 > with FreeBSD). I was asking for a 10 or 11 inch size model.
 > 
 > Re/ Mac, for a bunch of reasons Mac is a no go for me, not as laptop and
 > not as mobile cellphone. One reason you can Google for with
 > 'Apple stories'.
 > 
 > > This works for me a lot better than native FreeBSD on a laptop -- my
 > > last computer was a Lenovo X400 running FreeBSD natively, and I wasted
 > > too much time trying to get Chrome and other third party X apps to
 > > work.  Now I can run Chrome on MacOS, and the stuff under FreeBSD that
 > > works better there.
 > 
 > I can not remember any laptop which at the end not worked fine. Of
 > course, one has to pre-check the components and maybe change, for
 > example. the Wifi chip or use an USB dongle as Wifi.
 > 
 >     matthias
 > 
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