Laptop recommendations?

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Sunday, June 26, 2011 a las 05:36:27PM +1000, Ian Smith escribió:

> On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:17:08 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>  > 
>  > I run a bunch of laptops/netbooks, all with some older 8-CURRENT or now
>  > 9-CURRENT (head):
>  > 
>  > Acer Aspire One D250
>  > Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M1437G
>  > Asus EeePC 900
>  > Dell M4400
> 
> How well does suspend/resume work on these?  An absolute must for me.

I don't use suspend/resume, can't say anything about;

>  > the best way, if youd dealer allows it, would be to boot the laptop in
>  > question with a recent Knoppix DVD to see in detail what is in the box
>  > and then check the FreeBSD man(4) pages if it is supported;
> 
> The PC-BSD 8.2 memstick might be a good option for that sort of testing.  
> Unlike the FreeBSD memsticks it's a full DVD-sized image on a proper MBR
> slice, so you can write eg a verbose dmesg.boot and sysctl -a to another 
> slice for later evaluation on an 8GB+ stick, from the fixit boot.

Knoppix (a Linux derivate) works better to detect hardware; ofc you can
put it as well on an USB key;

> I suppose that's not a problem as long as it then behaves ok on battery. 
> I've never much fancied Dells but with the demise of 'proper' IBM/Lenovo 
> laptops, I'm trying to keep an open mind to others.  How's that Fujitsu?

It's outdated (from 2006) but works very well;

	matthias
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