On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Aaron Lewis <aaron.lewis1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/3/2010 1:48 AM, Andreas Davour wrote: >> >> I am thinking of buying a new laptop, and want one which will work fine >> with FBSD. Anyone have any suggestions? >> >> It must have a connector for a external screen (i.e. a projector when >> doing presentations), wireless, ~15" screen, lots of memory, and optical >> unit, and preferable a long battery time (i.e. CPU speed is not that >> important). >> >> Webpages, own experiences or any other comparisons available? >> >> Please cc me if answering. >> >> /andreas >> > You May want to checkout this list: > > http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ > > > Here's some suggestions , don't choose ATI video cards. ( No UNIX Drivers > .. )
Here´s another suggestion: don´t buy anything that has a Broadcom (BCM) ethernet and/or wireless card of any kind. You´ll find that your hardware has no support at all or that the existen support has some serious issues (specially regarding ACPI) My 2 cents > Well , i'm on ThinkPad R400 , ATI Mobile HD 3400 and an integrated Video > Card , > FBSD doesn't boot when i switched to ATI Video card. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
