From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Dec 12 5:38:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ppprs1.phy.tu-dresden.de (ppprs1.phy.tu-dresden.de [141.30.84.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC1D737B419 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 05:38:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from riemer@localhost) by ppprs1.phy.tu-dresden.de (8.10.2/8.10.2/SuSE Linux 8.10.0-0.3) id fBCDaSC13521 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:36:28 +0100 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:36:27 +0100 From: Tilo Riemer To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feedback on which Laptop to choose Message-ID: <20011212143625.A13472@ppprs1.phy.tu-dresden.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from davidh@apdata.com.au on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:14:30PM +1030 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.16 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:14:30PM +1030, David Hunt wrote: > Hi All rehi, > I am in the process of finding a current model laptop that will run FreeBSD > well, particularly from the 10/100 LAN perspective. freebsd works well on my hp omnibook xe3. the lan works, sound also. suspend to disk works maybe (I must compile the kernel with apm support...). the modem does not work. > The machines I have to choose from are: > > IBM A30 > Dell Inspiron 8100 > Dell Inspiron 4100 > Dell Inspiron 2500 I can't recommend the inspiron notebooks. our sales manager has a dell 8100, but the chassis is very ugly and waggly... > Toshiba Satellite 1800 > Toshiba Satellite Pro best regards, Tilo -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message