Looking for opinions; freeBSD laptop installation

Traditionally I have been a linux guy, and recently I switched and started using freeBSD as my server platform..

It is coming time for me to make my laptop dual boot, and in the past I have chosen linux, as this is what I used on my servers. Now I am considering using freeBSD there as well..

Do you guys run freeBSD in a desktop enviornment? Does it do well in this area? run into any pitfalls doing so?

Any and all feedback is appreciated!

I do run FreeBSD on one laptop (Sony PCG 505 TR to be precise), but not as dual boot. The laptop ran RedHat linux from 6.1 all the way to RH 8, but RedHat changed something on RedHat 9 that made the CD installer hang when autodetecting stuff. I tried doing a network install, but none of the floppy images had the drivers for my Netgear 100 Mb card (I'd done a network install with RH 6.1. The trouble was that I'd donated that old 10Mb card to someone else and this person had inconveniently gone on vacation for a while). So after meddling with it for a few hours, I gave up and installed FreeBSD 4.7 on it. I needed to pass a couple of boot time params for the installer to detect my detachable CD drive (I had to do the same for Linux too) and the install went real smoothly and much faster than any RH install I've ever done. I've upgraded it since all the way to 4.10.

The laptop isn't very hi-tech by today's standards, but it works fairly well as a small and light development system. Specs are:
300 MHz Pentium II CPU
64 MB RAM
6.5 GB Hard disk
Network Cards: I use Netgear FA411 (100 Mbs) and Netgear MA 401 (Wireless 11 Mb 801.11b) cards on it. There's only one PCMCIA slot which means I can use only one card at a time.

I can run the following simultaneously with the system feeling fairly responsive:
* Apache 1.3.xx with PHP compiled into the binary
* MySQL
* X Windows (with Blackbox window manager for my regular account. I use KDE only for the root account. KDE is a big memory hog!)
* Konqeror web browser.
* Emacs editor.

This is typical for what I need to develop webpages that access a database. The nice thing is that this laptop is very small in size and weighs something around 3 lbs, so it is great to lug around. The laptop runs a lot longer (and cooler too, I think) than when it ran Windows 98 SE, which is what it came with originally. I can easily get a little more than 3 hours of battery life running with all the above software, whereas I only had 2 hours previously with Win98.

The GENERIC kernel doesn't have APM support enabled, so there was no way for me to tell how much battery life I had left. So I had to compile a custom kernel to enable APM and that took care of that problem. Also, I need to pass a couple of parameters to the boot loader if I hook up my detachable CDROM to the laptop (which I almost never do anyway).