Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:13:21 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Susceptibility of Dell 8200 to thermal stress/fatigue? Message-ID: <41AE6C31.7000107@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <200412020105.iB215hia004502@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <200412020105.iB215hia004502@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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David Wolfskill wrote: [..snip..] >>From ads on craigslist and eBay, it looks to me as if a Dell 8200 with a >UXGA (1600x1200) screen ought to work out reasonably well -- better than >the laptops in Dell's current catalogue, in that of the latter, only one >has an integrated "standard" (for PCs) serial port. (As a sysadmin, I >sometimes need to connect to random devices that only talk serial.) >[Yes, I could get a USB<->DB9 dongle; that's one more thing to lose or >break, as well as pay for.] I don't really care about a disk drive, as >my old disk drive still works (I'm using it in the loaner laptop as I >type). > >Now, it looks as if the Dell Latitude C840 is fairly similar to the >Inspiron 8200. As far as running FreEBSD on the machine, are there any >salient differences? > >And does anyone have any ideas as to how susceptible either is to >thermal stress? > >This comes into play because I keep a local copy of the FreeBSD CVS >repository on my laptop, updated daily, and have been tracking RELENG_4 >as often as the corresponding working directory changed (usually, >daily). I had been tracking HEAD (on another slice) until RELENG_5 was >branched, and I then tracked RELENG_5. (I do have a slice for HEAD, but >2 buildworlds in a day was eating into my time a bit much; 3 just >wouldn't be feasible. I'll probably resume tracking HEAD once I migrate >my production machines at home to 5.x.) > For what it's worth, I have a Dell D600, and I do much of the same that you do on your laptop on mine - I've been using it hard for a year, with no ill effects.. Eric
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