Natively Supported Notebook

[Peter Schuller]

> Does FreeBSD have any officially supported laptop?

This may be useful:

http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html

And if/when you've decided on the laptop you want to get, it would be a good 
idea to google around for the status of hardware support on FreeBSD, aswell 
as ask here.

In my experience there is always *something* that doesn't work quite right on 
non-MS operating systems when it comes to laptops. My laptop is a T40p which 
works fine overall, but there are some quirks.

As for "officially" supported I don't know.

> First system – Current primary desktop
> Asus A7N8X Deluxe (nForce 2)
> XP 2500+
> Onboard LAN (unsupported)
> MSI nVidia Gforce4TI 4400
> 1GB Corsair memory
> 80GB Western Digital Special Edition(not that that is important)

This doesn't work? It seem normal enough to me. What problems have you had?

> Second System – Currently sitting on the floor collecting dust
> Abit A7n-MAX2
> ATI 9500 (I think it has been a while since I built that one. Did they
> make a 9500?)
> 512MB (Don’t remember the brand of memory)
> 2 80GB Western Digital Special Edition(not that that is important)

Also seems pretty normal.

> Does anyone have a recommendation (other then a bullet) of a good system
> that I can continue to develop on (I know a notebook is not the best dev
> platform. But I spend so much time on the train with my commute the time
> is just wasted)?

Well, again the T40p *does* work for me (I used it as my primary system for 
quite a while) but not perfectly. There are obviously many laptops that work 
though. I think you may have better luck finding out how well things work if 
you focus on one or a few laptops that you have decided are the best choices 
for other reasons unrelated to FreeBSD hardware compatibility.

> So there is my scenario. I hope some one has a helpful suggestion. Heck I
> am willing to BBQ up the best ribs you have ever had to anyone in southern
> California willing to come over to help out (not likely I know)

Sorry, wrong country :)

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