Wich laptop to get?

[Olivier Cortes]

Le Mar 24/06/2003 à 23:54, Erik Paulsen Skaalerud a écrit : 
> I know, this probably has been asked a million times before, but I thought I
> should ask this because of the acpi, or, well, the troubles with laptops and
> FreeBSD 5.1..
> 
> What is a great laptop to buy these days? I'm kind of poor, so I cant get a
> expensive one. I need a laptop with:
> - a good GFX card (yes, I do play games on windows, I'll dual-boot)
> - space for lots of memory (1GB)
> - hopefully something faster than a 4200rpm disk. I'm considering getting a
> laptop with USB2 interface and a external disk, and just use it via USB1 in
> FreeBSD (since it doesnt like USB2 much, yet atleast.)
Hi,

I use a Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO EL, celeron 2Ghz based.
bad side: it is noisy and hot, it has probably no 3D support (i didn't
try under Windoze because i don't have windoze on it).
good sides: everything works (X at 1024, dualhead, TV out, ethernet,
pccard, sound, ACPI (need some tweaking and some bug reports, but
globally working, not hanging, not crashing), has 512Mb RAM for me, can
be extended, USB 2 works with 5.1 (i own a 120G IDE drive in a USB2.0
enclosure and a 11Gb 2'1/2 in USB2 enclosure too, damn fast!), firewire
should work (driver loads OK, but i don't own any peripherals), CD-RW
works with atapicam, DVD play OK, cheap (EUR 999).


hope this helps,

Olivier

> Any recommendations would be truly helpful.
> 
> Erik.
> 
> 
> 
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