What laptop do you recommend?

[David Dean]

mm, well I run a Dell 700m .. the widescreen 12" one with built-in wireless.

I'm using the fantastic iwi-firmware (so yes, the wireless works), and
855patch to get 1280x800 (the native res of the lcd) working. I have a
very quick document on what I did to get that going at
http://bratdot.info/cub1cle/projects/700m/

Accelerated graphics have never worked, but I just run Konsoles and
Kmail .. so I dont miss it.

The winmodem doesnt work, but thats about it.

I havent missed anything else that didnt work 'out of the box' on 6. I
ran 5.4 on there for a while as well, and the only thing I had to add
was UHCI to the generic kernel (so I could do backups before the
heat-death of the universe).

YMMV, but they are cheap, small and light.

-David

On 3/14/06, Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300
> freebsd at meijome.net wrote:
>
> > hi everyone,
> > I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work
> > WELL with freeBSD? e.g.:
> >
> > ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible)
> > PATA / SATA with no problems
> > all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound,
> > touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course
> >
> > Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips.
> >
> > >From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do
> > >DELLs
> > (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba,
> > but I don't think they are so well supported.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :)
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Beto
>
> What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? Thinkpads are a
> bit pricey for me atm. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could
> well be wrong...)
>
> Alternatively, has anyone got a model of *new* Toshiba laptops
> fully working ?
>
>
> thx
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David Dean
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