Lazy Geeks Blog

As the need arose for me to replace my previous work laptop, I was very keen to go to the opposite end of the scale. From a 17″ semi-powerhouse laptop to a smaller 10″ Netbook.
It was a mission to carry it around everywhere, battery life sucked, and it was just not functional for anything but sitting on a desk.
So I wanted something portable, to take with me on-site as I visit client sites for VoIP / IT support etc. I wanted something with good battery life (3-4 hours would be good I thought, which is over double what my previous was good for), I wanted it to be lightweight, semi-durable as I chuck it in my bag with other computer gear like routers and cables, and I didn’t want to have to sit around waiting for an OS like when installing on the EeePC 900 Flash Drive. A decent GPU would be nice, like an ION-based system, so I could do 1080p movies in my spare time, but that’s a lower-priority. 2GB RAM is a must, if it’s going to run Win7. Read more…

I installed FreeBSD on my laptop last night.

Epic Fail

FreeBSD 8 (current stable) does not support my laptop’s network card without a kernel recompile.

The OS trials is now on hold as I have lent my laptop out to Rene – I will resume OS Trials when I get my laptop back, so stay tuned.

UPDATE: Never got my laptop back, it’s been sold!
However I will do OS trials in virtualisation some point in the future.

Now that I have 4 monitors on my main PC, I find that I’m not using my laptop a huge amount (which up until last month was my primary desktop).

I’ve decided to use my laptop as a test bed for a big stack of operating systems.
Read about which ones after the break!
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