On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Henrik Hudson wrote:
Any of the i3 / i5 systems will be using Optimus, even if they don't state as much, and this is not supported under FreeBSD or Linux, neither proprietary or FOSS drivers. Some of the higher-end laptops (Lenovo) you can switch off optimus either in BIOS or a hardware switch, but a lot of those details are hidden behind marketing. It doesn't matter if it's ATI or Nvidia, they still route through the Intel HD stack. Some of the i7 machines don't do this, but they're also space heaters for the most part.
There are about 90 notebooks listed on Newegg with ATI/AMD video that should be supported by the 6.13.2 or 6.14.0 xf86-video-ati drivers: X1000-series, HD3000-series, and HD4000-series.
72 of them have the Radeon HD4250. All of those machines have AMD processors. Don't know what is comparable to an i3 or i5, what type of wireless chipset may be included, or how good the ACPI support is on any of them. I'd look at Acer, Lenovo, then Dell and HP, maybe Toshiba if there was nothing else available.
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html is relevant more to used machines, but always worth checking. In fact, if you have tried FreeBSD on a notebook that isn't on there, please create an entry for it.
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