From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Sep 15 10:13:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from khan.peak.org (khan.peak.org [198.88.144.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729B337B40B for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:13:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from peak.org (nobody@mccoy.peak.org [206.163.129.2]) by khan.peak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA24975; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:13:04 -0700 Received: from 24.136.36.40 (SquirrelMail authenticated user luomat) by emh.peak.org with HTTP; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:23:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2342.24.136.36.40.1000628587.squirrel@emh.peak.org> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:23:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Laptops From: "Timothy J. Luoma" To: keparena@euskalnet.net In-Reply-To: <01091519004507.01165@eu148-227.clientes.euskaltel.es> References: <01091519004507.01165@eu148-227.clientes.euskaltel.es> Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: luomat@peak.org X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.0.3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'm thinking on buying a laptop. Considered an iBook or PowerBook? Mac OSX is a tempting option for those wanting Unix, and it has a FreeBSD-ish underpinning. > I know clone laptops origine installation problems with Linux ordinary. > Dell. IBM and Sony are recomended. > Is it the same in FreeBSD? I believe that you will find more support for more "mainstream" laptops for things like sound and video cards. You'd probably have better luck asking in -mobile or -questions however TjL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message