Laptop recommendations for 6.x

Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko alex.kovalenko at verizon.net
Sat Feb 24 01:02:31 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 06:51 +0100, Uwe Laverenz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:30:32AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> 
> > The T42 is quite old.  I imagine the technology's moved on a little bit 
> > (lighter, faster, etc).  And separate wireless cards mean more tech to 
> > carry around, get lost, etc.
> 
> The T41/42 have several advantages in general and especially for FreeBSD
> users:
<snip>
> I have T41 and a T43p and I won't switch to a T60 as long
> as it's not fully supported by FreeBSD.

To be fair -- the unsupported things on my X60 are:
-- SD slot. I know there is something in the works, but did not look at
it. Probably irrelevant here as it does not exist on T41/T42.
-- modem. As, I suspect, is the case with T41/T42.
-- suspend. Which, AFAIK, is the mixed bag on T41/T42.

The rest is working quite well. I did order it with the Atheros card
though... and this brings us to the important point -- T41, T42 or X60
for that matter, are fairly broad designations, which cover serious
variety of the wireless cards, network chipsets, video cards, LCD
resolutions and CPU (if I am not mistaken latest X60 uses Core Duo 2,
while mine -- model 1709-73U -- uses 32-bit Core Duo). One, really ought
to look at the specific model's inventory.

-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko



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