Dell just announce a new laptop family. Most of them have eSata and DisplayPort. I hope I can connect a JBOD array to the eSata Port (like the Buffalo DriveStation Quattro TurboUSB). This case includes 4 Disks as RAID 0/1/5 or JBOD. With ZFS I hope to get the best performance out of this box (using JBOD Mode). Another idea was to use a port multiplier. However the driver situation with OpenSolaris seems not so good. With Linux/Windows I will get better driver support, but ZFS should work good.
The new Dell laptops are basically image compatible. However in the E-Series you can choose difference video devices: Intel? Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD or NVIDIA? Quadro? NVS 160M2 256MB DDR3 The M2400 has: NVIDIA? Quadro? FX 380M Graphics with 256MB dedicated memory The M440 has: NVIDIA? Quadro? FX 770M Graphics with 512MB dedicated memory I find the Expose (Mac like) features of compiz very nice. For this I need 3D. What graphic card has the best support in the upcoming Opensolaris 11.2008? Support for Ethernet is essential. WiFi, Webcam, Mix and Bluetooth can wait. I guess somewhere at Sun has already received a engineering example. In a recent blog there was mentioned that Dell is a partner for OpenSolaris. This message posted from opensolaris.org
