From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 16:11:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F190D37B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 16:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.enst.fr (matrix2.enst.fr [137.194.2.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AF0C43FB1 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 16:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cedric.ware@enst.fr) Received: from olympe.enst.fr (olympe.enst.fr [137.194.64.54]) by smtp2.enst.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81C71F376 for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 01:09:51 +0200 (MEST) Received: by olympe.enst.fr (Postfix, from userid 14110) id 5452910F95; Wed, 7 May 2003 01:09:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 01:09:50 +0200 From: Cedric Ware To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030506230950.GA19365@enst.fr> References: <20030505223531.6B6755D04@ptavv.es.net> <3EB74DAB.7000705@katherinehouse.com> <20030506185816.GA39175@laptop.lambertfam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030506185816.GA39175@laptop.lambertfam.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Subject: Re: ideal laptop recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 23:11:09 -0000 > 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.