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laptop buy - some advice needed
Hello,
this summer I shall finally be able to buy myself a new laptop (or, better said, a laptop, since I have none). I was thinking about buying a ThinkPad, because reading around in various forums it seems that unix is best supported there and it seems to be very reliable hardware. Just today I have seen what seems a very good bargain on line (remember I live in Beijing), it is a X200s with a Celeron M at 1.2mhz, a bus at 800mhz and 2G of ddr3 ram at 1066mhz (if I'm not going wrong, 1066mhz ram is useless since the bus is only 800, so it might be more wise to upgrade to 4G of 800mhz ram) I was thinking at the beginning to look for a dual core, so, first question: would a machine like that be too slow? If it was only to surf the web or watch a movie I think it would be no problem, but I have another little problem. I live in China and at least 80% (99%?) of sites here work only, I repeat ONLY with MS IE, for example, to access my bank account I must open my windows box and use IE, using Firefox or Opera for windows does not work either. So what's the problem? I could simply double boot, but I would like to avoid that if possible. So, would I be able to run Wine through Linux binary emulation? Would Wine allow me to run small programs for windows (for example, the typical cdrom that comes with a dictionary you bought, but that works only on windows)? Would that work with Skype to? Or would it be easier to run windows inside qemu? Would this Celeron M be enough for that? Of course, I could think about installing a different OS, but I did try FreeBSD before on a different machine, and had all kind of problems, and the same with Linux Fedora which I dualboot on my windows box and when I happen to use it, it pops on me plenty of "bug report" windows just using a terminal. Probably I could solve that building my own distribution, but I really don't have time for that now, and OpenBSD really works perfect out of the box. Last question: will suspend and hibernate work fine? I quite need to leave all my terminals open and come back to them later. lots of questions... |
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I think that at least dual core is mandatory, change that Celeron into dual core Intel U7600 (2 x 1.2GHz) for example. I would not buy today a laptop that has only one core, maybe some single core T4x if I would be using OpenBSD, but as long as you are not focused on OpenBSD, dual core is a must IMHO. Quote:
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Thank you. I forgot to mention I'm looking for a light laptop, that's why I'm looking into the X series.
So, if I understand, vermaden is advising me to switch to FreeBSD. I might give it another try on my windows box, but I kind of want to stick to OpenBSD (maybe I'm just lazy to learn yet another system, although I guess differences must not be that big). Or I could do like jggimi says, boot different OSes, and by the way, how is Ubuntu compared to Fedora? Anyway, the important thing is to go for a dual core Quote:
Last edited by gosha; 5th July 2009 at 01:20 PM. |
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This is an OpenBSD thread vermaden.
No Wine, No VirtualBox.. probably no Skype. As far as I know, the updated version of Wine was just to get the ball rolling.. it compiles, but does not run executables. I'm not sure about those exaggerated percentages of websites in China that require Internet Explorer, do you mean that they all extensively use ActiveX, Flash or Java? If they do require any of those horrible things, it might just be a silly Javascript generated error.. consider using the Firefox extension "User Agent Switcher" and mimic Internet Explorer. |
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... well, my bank site still does not like it. To login, the field to type your password has a virtual keyboard which pops up changing the order of the numbers every time, but you cannot really type with the real keyboard. Allowing pop windows does not help. But this is already quit out of topic. Last edited by gosha; 5th July 2009 at 01:51 PM. |
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@BSDfan666
Havent checked general category, thought that laptop was generally for BSD systems. @gosha Now as I read you post again (and category) its clear that you seek for light laptop for OpenBSD. Quote:
Here you will find nice review of it: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3905 Quote:
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