Laptop choices

[Bruno Ducrot]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:12:46PM -0800, Graham North wrote:
> Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck 
> winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP.
> 
> Dell Latitude d600 with Radeon 9000? video, intel pro wireless
> or
> IBM R51 - Intel Extreme2, intel pro wireless.
> The main differences will likely be the video and maybe bios, acpi...?
> Can someone suggest to me whether these are both safe choices?
> Am I better off installing 5.4 or 6.0?

AFAIK there are still some issues with suspend-to-ram with the Dell (and
I never liked the way they wrote their ASL, but it's more a style issue ;)

On the other hand, I don't remember if the IBM R51 do have the same kind
of issue with suspend-to-ram, though I'm pretty sure suspending to
ram work for almost IBM thinkpads under FreeBSD.

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