Best $1000 Freebsd laptop?

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On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:54:20 -0500 Anthony Jenkins 
<scoobi_doo at yahoo.com> wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>
>> From: Xn Nooby <xnooby at gmail.com>
>> To: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
>> Cc: 
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 8:20 AM
>> Subject: Best $1000 Freebsd laptop?
>> 
>> I bought a laptop that has an unsupported video card, so now it 
>is my
>> "windows laptop".  I am thinking of getting another to be my 
>> "freebsd
>> laptop", so I want to make sure it really works with FreebSD.  I 
>could
>> probably spend <$1000 (USD) on one.  I like the look of the 
>Lenovos
>> but I am unfamiliar with all the different models, and have never
>> bought anything from their webstore.  I normally buy from Dell or
>> Amazon, and I never buy used or refurbished (unless its a car!).
>> 
>> My main requirements are having long battery life, opengl 
>graphics,
>> vtx suppoort (virtualization).  A decent drive (500+GB) and ram 
>(6GB+)
>> would be nice.  I can't believe ZFS needs 6GB+ ram, and I am not 
>sure
>> I would want to get a lot of ram, just so I could use ZFS.  On 
>the
>> other hand, I read that UFS is getting old.  I would rather use 
>RAM
>> for running virtual machines.
>> 
>> I'm scared to death of getting another machine that has an 
>unsupported
>> video card (like nvidia optimus), or no VTX.  I want a long 
>lasting
>> machine that I can travel with, take to work, and not be limited 
>by.
>> My windows laptop is an i3 with VTX, and is a little under-
>powered, so
>> I am thinking of an i5+.  I don't do a lot of number-crunching, 
>but I
>> don't want it to be slow, either.
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
>
>I'm running a fairly old 
>9.0-CURRENT (9.0-CURRENT #7: Wed Aug 17 09:34:34 EDT 2011) on a 
>cheap 
>Acer Aspire 5552-7803 (~$400 USD) with an AMD Phenom II X4 CPU & 
>the max 8GB RAM installed.  On-board Atheros wi-fi and 
>suspend/resume work 
>fine, I run VirtualBox VMs and I believe accelerated X stuff 
>works...
>
>Well maybe not - I'm running KDE4 
>and just tried pulling up OpenGL info dialog which crashed my X 
>session.  Other 
>minor problems are the box seems to become less stable the more 
>times I 
>suspend/resume without an intervening reboot, but I consider that 
>a 
>minor annoyance.  I also added code to /etc/rc.resume to restart 
>the wireless network because the suggested 'wpa_cli reassociate' 
>was hit-or-miss.  I haven't done any ZFS tuning to limit the 
>amount of 
>memory ZFS uses, might do that soon.  I have a ZFS-on-root system.
>
>Anthony Jenkins
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