Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2012-10-04 Thread Tito Mari Francis Escaño
Good day, I'd like to seek your advise what new laptop brand and model should I buy that is fully functional (video, LAN, Wifi, sound) with OpenBSD 5.x. I searched online and found only older models. My sisters plan to give me a laptop for Christmas so I'd like to make sure I get the laptop that wo

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2013-06-17 Thread Jack
Tito Mari Francis Escaño gmail.com> writes: > > Good day, > I'd like to seek your advise what new laptop brand and model should I buy > that is fully functional (video, LAN, Wifi, sound) with OpenBSD 5.x. I > searched online and found only older models. My sisters plan to give me a > laptop for

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2013-06-17 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 01:43:41PM +, Jack wrote: > Tito Mari Francis Esca??o gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Good day, > > I'd like to seek your advise what new laptop brand and model should I buy > > that is fully functional (video, LAN, Wifi, sound) with OpenBSD 5.x. I > > searched online a

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2012-10-04 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 19:23, Tito Mari Francis Escaño wrote: > Good day, > I'd like to seek your advise what new laptop brand and model should I buy > that is fully functional (video, LAN, Wifi, sound) with OpenBSD 5.x. I > searched online and found only older models. My sisters plan to give me a

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2012-10-04 Thread Tito Mari Francis Escaño
Alright, how about the not so old that I can buy brand new? Buying second hand leaves me at the mercy of the seller, praying it won't break just when the shop or personal warranty expires. Thanks for the advice. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 19:23,

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2012-10-05 Thread Jes
El Thu, 4 Oct 2012 20:32:14 -0700 Tito Mari Francis Escaño escribió: > Alright, how about the not so old that I can buy brand new? Buying > second hand leaves me at the mercy of the seller, praying it won't > break just when the shop or personal warranty expires. Thanks for the > advice. > > On T

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2012-10-06 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:00:11PM -0500, Francisco Valladolid H. wrote: > I'm currently using a old Thinkpad T61p, good machine and OpenBSD 5.1 work > fine. And I am very satisfied with my ThinkPad T500 (September 2008 model, or August 2009, I'm not sure...) which my nephew gave to me since the c

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2012-10-06 Thread Jiri B
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 08:46:28PM +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote: > And I am very satisfied with my ThinkPad T500 (September 2008 model, or > August 2009, I'm not sure...) which my nephew gave to me since the > company he works for considered it outdated. I'm running current and > everything works

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2012-10-06 Thread David Coppa
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Erling Westenvik wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:00:11PM -0500, Francisco Valladolid H. wrote: >> I'm currently using a old Thinkpad T61p, good machine and OpenBSD 5.1 work >> fine. > > And I am very satisfied with my ThinkPad T500 (September 2008 model, or > Au

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2012-10-06 Thread Любомир Григоров
I use a gen2 Intel ThinkPad X220 (for now) with FreeBSD. When I got it I tried to install OpenBSD and it worked for a day and I wiped it. I use FreeBSD because of the KMS support at this time. Battery time is about 1 hour less than on Windows. If you want guranteed support for almost all devices,

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2012-10-06 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 09:04:58PM +0200, David Coppa wrote: > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Erling Westenvik > wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:00:11PM -0500, Francisco Valladolid H. wrote: > >> I'm currently using a old Thinkpad T61p, good machine and OpenBSD 5.1 work > >> fine. > > > > A

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2012-10-07 Thread David Coppa
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Erling Westenvik wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 09:04:58PM +0200, David Coppa wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Erling Westenvik >> wrote: >> > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:00:11PM -0500, Francisco Valladolid H. wrote: >> >> I'm currently using a old Thinkp

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2012-10-07 Thread Erling Westenvik
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 09:52:10AM +0200, David Coppa wrote: > Yes. Sadly, this particular device is not supported. > > Confirmed here too: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libfprint/+bug/389559 There appear to have been some movement lately: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2012-10-10 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Francisco Valladolid H. [fic...@gmail.com] wrote: > Hi Tito > > I'm currently using a old Thinkpad T61p, good machine and OpenBSD 5.1 work > fine. > nvidia graphics.

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

2012-10-22 Thread Why 42? The lists account.
But returning, if possible, to the original question ... On Thu Oct 4 19:23:41 2012, Tito Mari Francis Escaño wrote: > I'd like to seek your advise what new laptop brand and model should I buy > that is fully functional (video, LAN, Wifi, sound) with OpenBSD 5.x. > ... I have also been consideri