From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 18 22: 2:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tarial.albury.net.au (tarial.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADBCF15016 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:02:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nicks@tarial.albury.net.au) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by tarial.albury.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA11046; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:01:07 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from nicks) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:01:07 +1100 From: Nick Slager To: John Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: laptop recommendations Message-ID: <20000119170107.A9949@albury.net.au> Mail-Followup-To: John , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from goodleaf@pop.seanet.com on Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 08:34:46PM -0800 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake John (goodleaf@pop.seanet.com): > I'd like to solicit advice on laptops. What is the best make/model for use > with FBSD? By best I mean "cleanest most trouble-free install." Just to > narrow the field a bit, I'm looking for something in the mid to low price > range, something with enough juice to handle general use with X, and maybe > some light development tasks. I use a Dell Inspiron 3500 (now replaced with the 3700), which I'm very happy with. C366, 64Mb RAM, 4.8Gb HDD. Everything, including sound, is supported (I'm running 3.2-R). Reports from others using the Inspiron or Latitude range seem to indicate that the Dell's run FreeBSD quite well. Nick. -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message