A modern laptop on which suspend and resume works reliably?

[Rainer Duffner]

Tobias Roth schrieb:
> On 05/16/08 10:21, Rainer Duffner wrote:
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>> 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.
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> There's a patch been sent a few days ago I think to acpi@ that is a
> beginning of a remedy.
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>> Old PowerBooks and iBooks were supposedly the platforms with the best
>> suspend-resume track-record.
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> My 2.5 year old Thinkpad T43p now also works perfectly with 7.0.
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Yep, the T43p seems to be one of those (few) that do work.
(I've got a Lifebook E8010 ("Centrino") from maybe 3.5 years ago and 
ACPI S3/S4 doesn't work right, not even with Ubuntu).

However, the OP was asking for a new laptop.
I actually hate to bring up the "get a Mac" tagline (I like using 
FreeBSD on my Lifebook, it's quick to boot, stable and the things I 
mostly do with it are fast, too) almost everytime this subject comes up.
But when you want to have a truely "mobile" computer, working ACPI S3/S4 
is essential, IMO.
And if it doesn't work with FreeBSD on just about any new laptop, I 
can't honestly recommend it to anyone for this purpose.



Rainer