From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Feb 11 15:47:46 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC1B37B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:47:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from net1.gendyn.com (gate1.gendyn.com [204.60.171.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEB043FAF for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 15:47:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from [153.11.11.3] (helo=ebnext01) by net1.gendyn.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 18ik7j-000M7M-00 for mobile@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:47:35 -0500 Received: from clcrtr.gdeb.com ([153.11.109.11]) by ebnext01 with SMTP id h1BNlZJK028436 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:47:35 -0500 Received: from vigrid.com (gpz.clc.gdeb.com [192.168.3.12]) by clcrtr.gdeb.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h197sbq05484 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 02:54:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Message-ID: <3E498B8E.2D6D6FEA@vigrid.com> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:47:26 -0500 From: Daniel Eischen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.9 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Laptop recommendation? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I've finally come to the conclusion that my 200MHz Pentium laptop with 3GB drive with 32MB RAM just isn't cutting it any more. It's way too difficult to develop for -current on it, and all X servers since 3.3 don't work with its C&T 65550. [Don't anyone tell me how to get it to work because it's part of my rationalization to by a new laptop!] I'm looking at the Gateway 400/450 series. They seem to be similar to the Dell Inspiron 4150 but a few hundred less for basically the same stuff. Any problems with these? They got a couple good deals on remanufactured units also. I want a relatively lightweight (< 6lbs) with 14" display and [easily!] supported video, P4 ~2GHz, and integrated wired and/or wireless ethernet. Not too worried about RAM, can get that after market. Looking to spend $1000-$1500. Any other suggestions? Thanks, -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message