On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 04:32:06PM -0700, Marek Novotny wrote: > New to this group, and new to FreeBSD via PC-BSD. Really like it so far. > Sorry if this has been asked to death already. Levono has their new T450 > with the 5th gen intel Broadwell i5 processor. I bought it with the hopes of > running PC-BSD latest version on it. It uses intel 5500 graphics as well. > Any potential issues using this?? >
You won't be able to use accelerated graphics. I have the T540p which has the i7-4800MQ, and am quite happy with running FreeBSD CURRENT on it. I don't care about accelerated graphics too much, though. One nit with the laptop is I needed to use an external USB flash drive to store /boot on an MBR partition, because my hard drives are GPT-partitioned using ZFS on '/' on GELI-encrypted providers. Otherwise, I have noticed that using the /boot on the GPT disk enforces low resolution graphics (640x480 IIRC). By using a USB flash drive for /boot, I can get 1920x1080 resolution (one of the many reasons for choosing this laptop). (I've been meaning to put this into the FreeBSD Wiki, but EBUSY.) Glen
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