Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 23:08:53 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: lcremean@tidalwave.net Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A truly losing laptop for FreeBSD. Message-ID: <199801301238.XAA04311@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jan 1998 06:49:53 CDT." <19980130064953.15220@wakky.dyn.ml.org>
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> > And it's sort of sad because this is the kind of *high end* laptop > > you'd like to see more FreeBSD users using. Unfortunately, according > > to one BETA tester, he can't even get FreeBSD to recognise the serial > > ports on the thing much less the more complex peripherals. In fact, > > it seems to hold the current record for the most things that don't > > work under FreeBSD on a single machine. :-) > > Toshiba laptops suck in other ways, too, at least the Satellites do...they > have slower-than-usual PCMCIA buses, which cramps performance if you're > using, say, a PCMCIA hard drive or an encryption token. Hmm, I haven't noticed that with this unit (a 220CDS); I happily get ~1MB/sec over my NE2000 clone. OTOH, I'm faster with a pencil that the disk in it; not sure where the bottleneck is there. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\
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