Re: Laptop suggestions?

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "I'm buying a new computer, what should I buy?" > > Buy whatever suits your needs, and feels comfortable for you. > > With regards to OS compatibility, this is a difficult one. Googling to > see what other people have

Re: Laptop suggestions?

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:36:37PM +0300, Aggelidis Nikos wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "I'm buying a new computer, what should I buy?" > > > > Buy whatever suits your needs, and feels comfortable for you. > > > > > With regards to OS

Re: Laptop suggestions?

On 2008-Jul-25 13:36:37 +0300, Aggelidis Nikos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From my perspective freebsd should "advertise"(*) the laptops that >work with it, out of the box, so that new users {like me} know what to >buy; Who do you suggest is going to do this? Buying one of every type of laptop,

Re: Laptop suggestions?

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:00:38PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Successive generations of laptops have become less and less > free-OS-friendly. This is simply wrong. Most laptops ship either with Ati or Intel chipset. Both tend to be well supported. With a bit care, you will get wpi as wireless ch

Re: Laptop suggestions?

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: And if you go with Lenovo, be aware that their T60/T60p/T61/T61p series (and possibly the X-series) are known to sport very high temperatures. Some people have reported temperatures of nearly 90C on their GPU (when idling), which has a direct effect

Re: Laptop suggestions?

How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron 1525N and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running FreeBSD smoothly? A quick glance over the hardware notes of 7.0-RELEASE and some googling around show that wireless, video and audio are supported. //rk

Re: Laptop suggestions?

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Razmig K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron 1525N > and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running FreeBSD > smoothly? A quick glance over the hardware notes of 7.0-RELEASE and some >

Re: Laptop suggestions?

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:35:44PM +0300, Razmig K wrote: > How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron > 1525N and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running > FreeBSD smoothly? A quick glance over the hardware notes of 7.0-RELEASE > and some googli

Re: Laptop suggestions?

Zaphod Beeblebrox a écrit : On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Razmig K <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron 1525N and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running FreeBSD smoothly? A

Re: Laptop suggestions?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Razmig K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron 1525N >> and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running FreeBSD

Re: Laptop suggestions?

On Thursday 24 July 2008, Frank Mayhar wrote: > My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix, sigh, > so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions from > this list (cc'd to hackers for the exposure, I know everyone doesn't > read -mobile). I haven't played

Intel Q35 works (patch attached)

Some recent work in the AGP drivers seems to have combined to make FreeBSD support the Intel Q35 in my Intel Optiplex 755. Attached is a one-line patch to enable detection of the chipset (really moving a comment character). It would be great if someone would commit it. If no one notices this mai

Re: Laptop suggestions?

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:34:32 -0500, Frank Mayhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix, sigh, so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions from this list (cc'd to hackers for the exposure, I know everyone doesn't read -m

Re: Laptop suggestions?

IBM Z series, my Z60M Titanium, runs great and still actually looks brand new being 2+ years old the X, T and Z series laptops are all decent, i cant say on quality, im still using the one i got almost three years ago with no issues. 1680x1050 on a 15'4 wide wcreen is nice also. I also have an Asus