On 2/17/06, Xn Nooby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to get a small laptop dedicated to (desktop) FreeBSD 6.x, > ideally one that could run Win2000 inside QEMU and has an nVidia chip so I > can do OpenGL stuff. Any suggestions? It doesnt have to be superfast, > though I would prolly want to drop a 100GB 2.5" drive in it later. > > 2 years ago I foolishly bought a HP Pavillion, and I have to use an external > keyboard with it for FreebSD (or else it wont boot). The HP laptop is now a > dedicated Windows machine (and I'd return it if I could). > > Is anyone using a laptop that they are happy with? Maybe a refurbished > Thinkpad? (though I prefer to buy lapotops new, in case they are duds). I > dont particularly trust the online lists of "laptops that work with > FreeBSD", since my other laptop is on one of them. > > I plan to carry the laptop around a lot, so I'm looking for something a > little smaller than average. My HP Pavillion is about 7lbs, which is too > big. Maybe a small Thinkpad, if they still make them?
You want a Apple PowerBook err... MacBook Pro. I have a G4 model and it's sweet... anyways, if you don't want a Mac then look for corporate / large business orientated notebooks. They normally don't have all the stupid whiz-bang features found on home notebooks and are modular across product lines. For example I had and HP OmniBook 6000 (700Mhz) and desided I wanted a faster book so I found a striped out OmniBook 6100 (1.13Ghz PIII-M) on eBay. It used the same batteries, drive trays, PowerBrick, etc. so I just used the ones from the old notebook. As for the OB6100 I have, I've never tried FreeBSD on it but SuSE 9.3 Pro worked perfect. I Have Win2K on it now so I can run Multisim, Mathematica, Maple, and other proprietary software I need for college. (Going back to school for computer engineering degree.) You can pickup used notebooks at RetroBox. "RetroBox clients are Fortune 500 companies. When a Fortune 500 company upgrades to leading edge technology, they leave behind a trail of some of the best maintained previously-owned desktop computer equipment available. Well, we're all over it!" http://www.retrobox.com/rbwww/home/search_results_pc_laptops.asp?bin_id=world _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
