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

[Milan Jurik]

Hi,

some laptops with nVidia NVS could be usable.

Best regards,

Milan



On út, 2013-03-26 at 13:42 -0600, Gregory S. Youngblood wrote:
> If you find a good option I would like to know. The last good laptop I have personally used that worked great with open Indiana was my Lenovo T61p from 2008. I still have it and it works well though it is a bit dated and big.
> 
> --
> Sent from my Jelly Bean Galaxy Nexus
> 
> "Hans J. Albertsson" <hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >