Re: Recommended laptop

2013-12-17 Thread mia
On 12/17/13 16:57, Gabriel Marchi wrote: Hi there, I'm looking for an laptop that everything supported and compatible with OpenBSD 5.4 straight out of the box (graphics/sound, wireless card, etc.) Is a good choice ? Lenovo G400S http://shopap.lenovo.com/my/en/laptops/essential/g-series/g400

Re: Recommended laptop

2013-12-17 Thread Zé Loff
> On 17/12/2013, at 21:57, Gabriel Marchi wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm looking for an laptop that everything supported and compatible > with OpenBSD 5.4 straight out > of the box (graphics/sound, wireless card, etc.) > > > Is a good choice ? > > > Lenovo G400S > > http://shopap.lenovo.com/m

Recommended laptop

2013-12-17 Thread Gabriel Marchi
Hi there, I'm looking for an laptop that everything supported and compatible with OpenBSD 5.4 straight out of the box (graphics/sound, wireless card, etc.) Is a good choice ? Lenovo G400S http://shopap.lenovo.com/my/en/laptops/essential/g-series/g400s/#features Thanks -- Atenciosamente, *

Re: Recommended laptop

2009-12-29 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:30 AM, STeve Andre' wrote: > On Monday 28 December 2009 04:27:40 Johan M:son Lindman wrote: >> On Tuesday 22 December 2009 04:57:55 STeve Andre' wrote: >> > On Monday 21 December 2009 22:48:45 James Hozier wrote: >> > > This will be my first purchase that is focused prim

Re: Recommended laptop

2009-12-28 Thread STeve Andre'
On Monday 28 December 2009 04:27:40 Johan M:son Lindman wrote: > On Tuesday 22 December 2009 04:57:55 STeve Andre' wrote: > > On Monday 21 December 2009 22:48:45 James Hozier wrote: > > > This will be my first purchase that is focused primarily on having only > > > OpenBSD on it and nothing else to

Re: Recommended laptop

2009-12-28 Thread Johan M:son Lindman
On Tuesday 22 December 2009 04:57:55 STeve Andre' wrote: > On Monday 21 December 2009 22:48:45 James Hozier wrote: > > This will be my first purchase that is focused primarily on having only > > OpenBSD on it and nothing else to be used as a main workstation. The > > budget is around $900 or so. I'

Re: Recommended laptop

2009-12-23 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Just some update. People from west had (at least many of them) what they want. Here behind the iron Curtain it was very different. So people learned how to fight with it. And it's still used a lot because even after twenty years some problems still persist like idiotic 1 USD = 1 EUR and similar. R

Re: Recommended laptop

2009-12-23 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Sometimes it's funny :-) There was a test in Czech Republic when some redaction of magazine purchased "black" version of Windows from China. To their surprise it was there in time, it had real phone/email support and there were patches which were available in official version after two months or so

Re: Recommended laptop

2009-12-23 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:05:01 +0100 Tomas Bodzar wrote: > You can have it much more cheaper. Grey economy was strong in > ex-communist countries ;-) > Probably not if you want clear title to the equipment, with warranty and support. Grey economy is not so good if you're cast as Caesar's Wife ;-

Re: Recommended laptop

2009-12-22 Thread Martin Toft
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:33:43AM +0100, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > Don't know about Thinkpads, but Dell E6400 works great. But it's > around 950 $ or so. IMHO, the E6400 is too big to carry around often. Other than that it feels okay quality-wise. Do not get the edition with an NVIDIA graphics card,

Re: Recommended laptop

2009-12-22 Thread Tomas Bodzar
You can have it much more cheaper. Grey economy was strong in ex-communist countries ;-) On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Eugene Yunak wrote: > 2009/12/22 Tomas Bodzar : >> Don't know about Thinkpads, but Dell E6400 works great. But it's >> around 950 $ or so. >> > > The benefits of western worl

Re: Recommended laptop

2009-12-22 Thread Eugene Yunak
2009/12/22 Tomas Bodzar : > Don't know about Thinkpads, but Dell E6400 works great. But it's > around 950 $ or so. > The benefits of western world... ;) My e6400 cost me almost $4000 here in Ukraine. But i am very happy of that purchase, the notebook is great and everything is supported by OpenBSD

Re: Recommended laptop

2009-12-21 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Don't know about Thinkpads, but Dell E6400 works great. But it's around 950 $ or so. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:48 AM, James Hozier wrote: > This will be my first purchase that is focused primarily on having only > OpenBSD on it and nothing else to be used as a main workstation. The budget > is ar

Re: Recommended laptop

2009-12-21 Thread STeve Andre'
On Monday 21 December 2009 22:48:45 James Hozier wrote: > This will be my first purchase that is focused primarily on having only > OpenBSD on it and nothing else to be used as a main workstation. The budget > is around $900 or so. I'm looking for something with quality parts and > probably have ev

Recommended laptop

2009-12-21 Thread James Hozier
This will be my first purchase that is focused primarily on having only OpenBSD on it and nothing else to be used as a main workstation. The budget is around $900 or so. I'm looking for something with quality parts and probably have everything supported and compatible with OpenBSD straight out of t