El Thu, 4 Oct 2012 20:32:14 -0700 Tito Mari Francis Escaño <titomarifran...@gmail.com> escribió:
> Alright, how about the not so old that I can buy brand new? Buying > second hand leaves me at the mercy of the seller, praying it won't > break just when the shop or personal warranty expires. Thanks for the > advice. > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 19:23, Tito Mari Francis Escaño wrote: > > > Good day, > > > I'd like to seek your advise what new laptop brand and model > > > should I buy that is fully functional (video, LAN, Wifi, sound) > > > with OpenBSD 5.x. I searched online and found only older models. > > > My sisters plan to give me a laptop for Christmas so I'd like to > > > make sure I get the laptop that works with my OS of choice. > > > > Well, at the moment, the video situation with Sandy Bridge (2nd gen > > core 2) processors is less than 100% functional (no xv, other > > quirks), so that pushes you back to older machines right there. > > > > Same story for laptops with the AMD A-? APU series. > Hola Tito: I agree with Ted Unangst, older machines have better behaviour with OpenBSD than newer ones. Thinkpads are good machines for OpenBSD. I own a R61 and T410. OpenBSD runs fine in the R61 but in my T410 there is a problem with suspend/resume and USB ports (no power on resume). I think T420 runs well too. All my laptops are second hand (from ebay). I prefer to adquire batteries and memory to update instead of pay a lot of money for a product that will be obsolete in a couple of years. BR
