Laptop recommendations?

[Bengt Ahlgren]

Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> writes:

> On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:17:08 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>  > El día Saturday, June 25, 2011 a las 11:25:02AM -0700, David Wolfskill escribió:
>  > 
>  > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 07:34:24PM +0200, Bastian Rieck wrote:
>  > > > Dear list,
>  > > > 
>  > > > I need to replace my old IBM Thinkpad R50e, which is running FreeBSD
>  > > > 8.2. Currently, my favoured replacement is a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E520.
>  > > > ....
>  > > 
>  > > I rather like the laptop I've been using for the past several months: a
>  > > Dell Precision M4400.  I track stable/8 & head (in different slices) on
>  > > it daily; it normally takes about an hour to take care of both of those.
>  > 
>  > 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.
>
> My Thinkpad T23s always resumed 100% reliably through 6.x and 7.x, still 
> does at 7.4-R, but since 8.0-R through to 8.2-R they completely freeze
> for an even 60 seconds on resume, after which I often get a bunch of 
> 'time went backwards' errors - sometimes on every process running - so 
> I've never felt able to really trust it after resuming.  Noone seems to 
> know about that issue; probably no developers have i386 laptops anymore.

Me too for a Thinkpad X40 (running 8.2-R).  I tracked down the stall on
resume to uhci.ko.  Without that module loaded, there was no stall.
Other usb modules did not make any difference.  I unfortunately did not
have time to investigate it further.  My laptop comes to life reliably
after the stall.

Bengt