Searching for a new Laptop

[hglathe]

Hello eveyone,

after 3 "hard" years of using Windows (hard drive fragmentation, slowingdown over months/years, never ending reorganization of the storage and neverending background searches for OS-Patches, resource eating Virus-Scanner Killerapplications, no partition between system and user land etc...) I would like to switch back to PC BSD (before I used FreeBSD 4 years long).

Know I'm searching for a laptop to buy, which is compatible to run PC BSD 8 or better 9. I would like to use this laptop professionaly (Development with Eclipse; Running Windows via VirtualBox for professional Only-Windows-Tools), Office-Tooling (Docs in Google Cloud, Windows Office via VirtualBox or OpenOffice)).

I already know the BSD compatibility list, but there you can only see the OKs and issues on certain laptops. What I need is to enter all my mandatory / optional needs somewhere and getting a list of hardware / laptops which are supporting my needs.

Thus my question: Can anyone give me a recommandation for a relatively up to date laptop?

My needs:
- ca 15 '' Display
- Display resolution such as 1680 x 1050 or similar
- Also relatively high resolution for an external monitor used parallel at runtime
- UMTS support
- WLAN b/g/n + Ethernet
- Trackpoint + Touchpad
- also very important --> Support for Suspend / Resume
- Working MultiCard Reader

My favorit would be something from Lenovo. But I'm also open for alternatives.

Moreover: Does anyone know, if there is something like a professional support available for BSD Laptops / Notebooks in germany

Many thanks in advance, Helko

[jag3773]

I'm not sure if you saw this page: http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Laptops. That may help a bit.

I thought that ixsystems was offering a PC-BSD laptop, but I must be mis-remembering because I don't see it on their site.

[marsum]

For alternatives to Lenovo (without the trackpoint, though), I recently got the "Lemur" laptop from System76, replacing their default Ubuntu installation with PC-BSD and it works really well. A very inexpensive laptop for PC-BSD, even with lots of added ram. You'd probably want to look at their more upscale models, though.

It's likely that other Linux-distro'd-specific laptop assemblers (zareason, etc.) would also be a good bet for use with PC-BSD. One should have almost all of your needs. The only drawback: these are all U.S. sites, but (I think) have int'l shipping.

Let us know what you find.

[hglathe]

Thank you for the post. I will have a look.

My dream would be to run PC BSD on an lenovo x121e i7 (the keyboard is really great and a trackpoint is also equiped) or a Samsung Series 9 with i7 processor without limitations :)

I will be back, if I have news on this topic.

[hglathe]

The Lemur Ultra notebook looks very nice and the price is also very fair I think. Does the suspend / resume functionality work with PC BSD on your Lemur Ultra device? Int'l shipping to europe / germany is also supported (http://www.system76.com/home/shippinginformation/). I have no idea how much of tax I have to pay, but it's on my Top 5 candidates list. Only, I have to replace the Ubuntu keys ba a PC BSD key :)

Is your PC BSD running as 64 bit system on the Lemur Ultra?

Are you running your Lemur Ultra device with a 3G Modem? Via Smartphone connection or directly? Can you tell me something about this?

Thanks in advance, helko