A modern laptop on which suspend and resume works reliably?

[Rainer Duffner]

Vishwanathan S V N schrieb:
> Hi!
>
> I am in the market for a laptop (preferably a Thinkpad or a lightweight Dell). I am looking for something which is FreeBSD (or DesktopBSD) compatible. In particular, a machine on which ACPI suspend and resume work reliably. Any suggestions? Can you please send me your hardware configuration?
>
> I am also interested to know about experiences with wireless, function keys, and docking stations. 
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>   

AFAIK, any modern laptop (Merom or AMD platform) will have to have the 
2nd core deactivated to actually have a chance for a working ACPI.
That doesn't mean that ACPI suspend/resume actually works then, though.

Sadly, the same is also true for older chipsets (Centrino), though  
there are some IBMs where it actually works.

This is not to blame the developers, the situation isn't much better in 
Linux-land.
In fact, you can get enough reports about various versions of Windows 
not correctly waking up from the various sleep-states again, on various 
laptops from various vendors ;-)

Old PowerBooks and iBooks were supposedly the platforms with the best 
suspend-resume track-record.
The new ones are coming close, but they're still not perfect.

Have you thought about a MacBook?



cheers,
Rainer