[OpenIndiana-discuss] Looking for capable notebook for OI and other OSes, small size and with real network.

[Luca De Pandis]

The main problem of that laptop is the graphics card.
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd

Intel HD 4000 *doesn't* work on OI. Only VESA.

I've bought a Compaq CQ58-205SL with an Intel HD Graphics and OI is not be
able to use the graphics acceleration due the lacks of the Intel's i915
(with KMS) driver.

Only Solaris 11 is able to take advantage of my GPU, *but* i've a bad
experience with that (Xorg freezes very often...especially with Firefox and
Compiz, many glitches etc.). For a desktop purpose is quite unusable.

If you want to use a laptop with an Intel HD GPU, then the only viable
Unix-like OS is GNU/Linux.

For the rest...i don't know if Intel Ivy Bridge (3rd generation) is
supported by Illumos.
Probably, many peripherals won't work (especially wireless).


Best regards,
Luca De Pandis



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> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:16:15 +0100
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> I've been looking at possible choices for a small note-book for OI and
> some sort of Windows in dual boot, possibly even an ultrabook thingie.
>
> However, I keep running into disappointments:
>
> The biggest one is the apparent scarcity of proper high-capacity GB
> wired ethernet.
>
> Also, if I'd like to run such a thing under some Illumos based OS, I'd
> have to think very carefully.
>
> I sort of liked the Dell XPS 13 Linux Developer's Edition; small, full
> HD screen, nice kbd, very thin and fairly large SSD disk.
>
> But, running it under OI151a7??? I think that might be a bit unlikely to
> succeed!
>
> So, what advice can people give me on this subject?
>
> The Dell XPS 13 is the right price range, around ?1000.
> The size is very nice, the screen is VERY good..
>
> So, there's a nice exterior target type, but what if I absolutely
> require to run OI and have a proper network connector, and PXE capacity?
> And MUST run OI, with working wired network and graphics accel.
>
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