Laptop suggestions?

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:45 -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
>> Please define "comfortable". I've been running FreeBSD 7.0 pretty
>> comfortably on my HP nx6320 for several months now. I never attempted
>> to use neither Bluetooth nor the fingerprint reader, so I don't miss
>> them. The only real drawback I've found was that the memory card
>> reader does not work. I also ran 8.0-CURRENT on a HP 6910p because 7.0
>> did not support the WI-FI card.

> Another happy BSD user on HP - nc6320 this time though. intel(4x)
> graphics, wpi(4) wifi, bge(4) networking, fwochi(4) firewire, serial
> port, plenty of USB ports. Even the fingerprint scanner works
> (security/libfprint).
> I don't use bluetooth or the card reader, so cannot comment on them.
>
> The one down side of my HP laptop is the HP BIOS refuses to start up
> with a different wifi card installed - I'd quite like to use an ath(4)
> based card..

Do you have an up-to-date BIOS? I had some problems booting from USB
that I could solve using the latest BIOS version.

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