Hi, On 06 June 2012 21:10:14 [email protected] wrote: > in message <[email protected]>, > wrote Erich thusly... > > > > On 06 June 2012 23:27:39 Chad Perrin wrote: > ... > > > I have immediately installed FreeBSD on the last four or five > > > laptops I > > > > I do this since 5.2 is out with all my purchases. > ... > > I have to admit, that I have had to install twice Fedora because > > the notebook hardware was not supported at that moment of time. > > > > The second Fedora installation will go as soon as get finished my > > travelling or I get me hands on a new hard disk. > > Erich, could you please list the offending Lenovo models?
it is the X220. There is a solution available which needs a bit more time as I have had on hand before I left. As I have said several times already, I will be back with this machine to FreeBSD after my return. > > > ... > > What also has to be mentioned is the fact that people have to be > > more careful when shopping for new hardware with FreeBSD in mind. > > AMD based hardware is here of advantage at the moment. But it has > > other disadvantages. > ... > > What would be the said disadvantages? Some say that the AMD CPUs are slower per core. This X220 with the 2640 CPU seems to be very, very fast for me. I was surprised how it performed running plain FreeBSD. I would not have expected this much performance out of a small notebook. As this is my first Intel CPU since the good, old 80586, I cannot tell you more about Intel CPUs. Erich _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
