Re: Laptop suggestions?

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Achim Patzner <ap@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 30.07.2008 um 18:40 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav:

I don't understand what Macs have to do with this - we're talking about
iX Systems's made-for-BSD laptop.

The thread started with someone asking for a mobile computer that
would support FreeBSD sufficiently and nobody came up with something
fitting the bill (and being available somewhere). Considering the
picture you're seeing at any place where more than two hardcore Unix
users assemble you're seeing a majority of Macs. There has to be an
obvious reason for that... I tried to break that habit more than once
but right now the only comfortable way of running FreeBSD on a laptop
is VMware Fusion on a Mac. Reading this entire thread convinced me
even more.

Please define "comfortable". I've been running FreeBSD 7.0 pretty
comfortably on my HP nx6320 for several months now. I never attempted
to use neither Bluetooth nor the fingerprint reader, so I don't miss
them. The only real drawback I've found was that the memory card
reader does not work. I also ran 8.0-CURRENT on a HP 6910p because 7.0
did not support the WI-FI card.

--
Carlos Santos
Working, but not speaking (or advertising) for HP :-)
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