Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 07:16:52 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: stanb@awod.com (Stan Brown) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP Omnibook 7100 support? Message-ID: <199901271316.HAA05313@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <199901270147.RAA04984@hub.freebsd.org> from Stan Brown at "Jan 26, 99 08:47:54 pm"
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I have a 5700ct, and have to say, I hate it. Mostly, I run NT on it (and mostly I'm logged out :-). But I do have a second disk that I put in on occasion to run BSD. I find the machine clumsy and poorly built from a usability standpoint. 1) You can't have both the floppy and CD in the machine, you can plug the floppy into a port on the side, but only at boot time, or it doesn't show up. And when you do that, the power off button is covered up. 2) The power off button is cheap and cheesy. And of course, broke with/in a month. 3) It comes with the IR port enabled as COM2. With no doco on it, confusing everyone involved when the PC-Card modem won't work. Our "Systems Support" people still don't know this. Generally, the fit and finish things that make computers easy to use, from a hardware point of view, just aren't there on HP machines in my experience. That experience goes from these laptops, through the Vectra PC's and up to the 9000/7xx machines. I'll buy there printers, but I wouldn't spend my own money on these things. Paul. In a previous message, Stan Brown said: > I am evalutating an HP Omnibook 7100. Has anyone gotten FreeBSD runing > on one of these? > > I am particularly intereseted in how ell X works on it. Acording t the > manual it has an ATI Rage video chipset. > > -- > Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 843-745-3154 > Westvaco > Charleston SC. > -- > Windows 98: n. > useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and > a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system > originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit > company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. > - > (c) 1999 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- "All the other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer, and we are drinking Barry Manilow." - Dave Barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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