Nice compact lightweight powerful laptop ...

[Vulpes Velox]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:03:31 +0100
"Kiffin Gish" <kiffin.gish at planet.nl> wrote:

> The Thinkpad T and X series look sweet, but very pricey also. I was
> looking more around the $1000 range...

If 1400USD is in your range, I've been happy with my Toshiba Tecra
M3. Good graphics also. Runs Quake 4 nicely and outside of issues in
the iwi driver on releng_6, it works absolutely lovely.

 
> -- 
> Kiffin Rex Gish
> Gouda, The Netherlands
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org 
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> > Matthias Schmidt
> > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 15:18
> > To: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Nice compact lightweight powerful laptop ...
> > 
> > 
> > He,
> > 
> > * kiffin.gish at planet.nl wrote:
> > > Since I will be travelling alot in the near future, I have been 
> > > looking into purchasing a nice, fancy laptop dedicated to
> > > running FreeBSD 6.x and the Gnome desktop.
> > > 
> > > It needs to be light-weight and portable for in the plane,
> > > support wifi, have a long battery life, relatively fast
> > > graphics, 
> > 1GB memory 
> > > and around 2Ghz fast.
> > 
> > I recommend a IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T or X series.
> > 
> > > There are so many choices out there that I do not know 
> > where to start. 
> > > Any suggestions would be helpful.
> > > 
> > > Is there a known list somewhere of supported/tested laptops?
> > 
> > Have a look at the FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List:
> > 
> > 	http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/