Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 01:09:50 +0200 From: Cedric Ware <cedric.ware@enst.fr> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ideal laptop recommendations? Message-ID: <20030506230950.GA19365@enst.fr> In-Reply-To: <20030506185816.GA39175@laptop.lambertfam.org> References: <jesse@wingnet.net> <20030505223531.6B6755D04@ptavv.es.net> <b96qc0$k4i$1@main.gmane.org> <3EB74DAB.7000705@katherinehouse.com> <b98luv$re$1@main.gmane.org> <20030506185816.GA39175@laptop.lambertfam.org>
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> Apple 15" PowerBook w/Superdrive $2,799.00 > ------------------------------------------- > 15.2" TFT screen (1280x854) > PowerPC G4 1.0 GHz (Supposedly about as fast as your 2.0 GHz P4s) [8<] > Ships with Unix under the hood. :-) I, personally, drool every time my > co-worker pulls his older 800MHz 15" out of the bag. Yeah, me too, especially as I've worked on several occasions on a small G3 iBook and found it adequate if slow. Except that I ran some benchmarks on a 800MHz G4 PowerBook, which I tought would be more or less typical for me: compile teTeX-2.0.2 and use it to typeset some documents; performance was disappointing, about 42 minutes for teTeX itself (vs. just over 5 on some Dell with a quarter the RAM and a 1800MHz P4-M), although typesetting took "only" half again as long as on the Dell. That's a quite limited benchmark, but it's not encouraging if you expect performance for a developer's usage. Nevertheless, these laptops might be the only ones where everything (APM, video, modem, Wi-Fi...) works seamlessly while they run UNIX. Still hoping someone proves me wrong, Cedric Ware.
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