freebsd-mobile Digest, Vol 531, Issue 2

[PeerCorps Trust Fund]

Thanks Joseph,

The x220 was on the list as well but are slightly more expensive. We are actually aiming for the older models (x220 and before). They hold up pretty well in harsh environments and replacement parts are easy to find.

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>    1. Re: Best experience with Thinkpad suspend/resume (Joseph Mingrone)
>    2. looking for new netbook (Matthias Apitz)
>    3. Re: looking for new netbook (Lundberg, Johannes)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:47:30 -0400
> From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm at ftfl.ca>
> To: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Best experience with Thinkpad suspend/resume
> Message-ID: <86a93ded7x.fsf at gly.ftfl.ca>
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> PeerCorps Trust Fund <ipc at peercorpstrust.org> writes:
>> We are considering the acquisition of about 40 Thinkpad laptops
>> intended to be deployed in schools as teaching tools. ... Can others
>> confirm this is still the case under FreeBSD 10.1? Any other
>> models/suggestions would be extremely appreciated.
> 
> Suspend and resume work nearly flawlessly on my X220 running 10.1.  I
> say nearly flawlessly because maybe one out of 10 resumes I'm switched
> from my X session to virtual terminal 1.  It's not a big deal
> though.  Alt-f9 brings me back to where I left off.
> 
> The main headache with the X220 is a BIOS issue which prevents booting
> a GPT-partitioned disk without UEFI.  This problem isn't specific to
> FreeBSD.  UEFI and root ZFS don't work yet.  A good solution for now is
> to use GRUB.
> 
> Of course the X220 isn't available new any more and I'm not sure about
> the successors (X230 and X240).  Off topic: It's a shame Lenovo messed
> with the keyboard (I don't mean the chicklet keys, but the layout).
> 
> Joseph
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:43:42 +0100
> From: Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>
> To: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: looking for new netbook
> Message-ID: <20141127094342.GA1628 at unixarea.DDR.dd>
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking for a new netbook laptop; my old EeePC 900 (from 2008) has
> to short battery time, and the Acer Aspire One D250 has a problem with the
> display (from time to time goes completely white, the system is running,
> but one has to reboot to get an image again);
> 
> What I want is more or less:
> 
> -- 1-2 GByte RAM
> -- 1024x600 display, ~10 inch
> -- 50++ GByte SSD disk
> -- normal QWERTY/Z keyboard (i.o. no tablet)
> -- Wifi supported in head
> -- USB ports for UMTS dongle
> -- and of course, it should run FreeBSD;
> 
> Any pointers to a modern device?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 	matthias
> 

-- 
Michael L. Wilson
International Project Coordinator
PeerCorps Trust Fund - Tanzania