Netbooks & BSD

[herbert langhans]

The cheapo way, if you get a model without a harddisk, is a compact flash
card with an adapter for a few bucks. I currently have this combination
in my Thinkpad (although its an ata to CF-adapter). Works great,
lightweight, shockproof and reads really fast from the 'harddisk'.
Downside is the slower writing - but enough RAM makes sure it doesnt
swap to the CF-Card. Eight Gigabyte is enough for me, most data are on
the server anyway.

Highly recommendable..
Cheers
herb langhans

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:53:30PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> 
> >El d?a Sunday, October 17, 2010 a las 12:17:16PM -0600, Warren Block escribi?:
> >
> >>On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> >>
> >>>Any alternative netbooks outside Asus which run FreeBSD?
> >>
> >>Of course.  The Acer Aspire models vary, but the D250 is nice.
> >
> >Just to make sure: you mean the "Acer Aspire One D250" netbook? But this
> >seems to have a SATA hard disk, or are there models out with SSD?
> 
> Mine has a SATA drive, but there shouldn't be any reason it couldn't
> use a SATA SSD in that form factor.  I should add that just over the
> last couple of days, my D250 has started to panic at random times.
> That's new, and I don't know what's causing it.  Given that it was a
> scrap machine I repaired, it may be hardware failure.
> 
> >In any case, it sells for around 300 euro (around USD 380) and seems to
> >be an alternative as getting my Eee PC 900 repaired for the same price
> 
> Now that the netbook craze is over, there are quite a few
> lightly-used ones for sale, often around $150 here.  Look around
> before buying new. Relatively older models like the D250 may be
> better for FreeBSD, because they have Intel video that works with
> the accelerated xorg driver.
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