Recommended laptop for FreeBSD 10.2 Xfce workstation?

[Ian Smith]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:49:31 -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
 > On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 01:05:11AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
 > 	[snip]
 > | Explore the wiki: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops
 > | 
 > | For an example of something not much older that might tick a lot of your 
 > | boxes: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Thinkpad_T540p
 > 	[snip]
 > 
 > My T540p suspends fine but doesn't resume.  AMT says it came out of
 > resume but the power button says it didn't.  AMT seems to be broken
 > such that I can't get a serial connection.  I was hoping that I could
 > get a serial connect to help debug it.  I tried upgrading the firmware
 > and that didn't help.  Linux suspends and resumes just fine.  Graphics
 > works fine with the latest stuff.  I borred a W541 a while back and it
 > resumed with 10 but I don't have access to it now.

Glen said in his report:

    * Suspends fine.
    * Resumes with unofficial Haswell i915kms/drm2 update. 

Have you tried that?  dmesg shows his running 11 (March 2015), however.

You could try pinging him, if he has a spare msec before 10.3's out ..

cheers, Ian