Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 18:37:01 -0700 From: Ed Hall <edhall@weirdnoise.com> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ideal laptop recommendations? Message-ID: <200305070137.h471b1SP021435@screech.weirdnoise.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> <200305061839.LAA02360@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> wrote: > "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net> wrote: > > > If I fall in love with an IBM, then I may just have to wait a few > > months for the prices to go down and DVD burners to become available > > or something... > > What about external DVD-RW drives? (Well, I guess you'll have > problems with support under FreeBSD.) You won't have to wait if your laptop has firewire (and a controller FreeBSD supports). I use a Pioneer DVR-105 in a firewire-to-IDE case and it works flawlessly for burning and reading DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW. > If you can wait a few months, you might want to look at > Techbargains each day: > > http://www.techbargains.com > > Back in January, I found a killer deal on a Thinkpad there. Decent > laptop deals seem to appear every few months. (However, you've got to > be careful and look at all the angles and fine print -- not everything > there is a deal, IMO.) I have an unremarkable Compaq 2700 which supports -STABLE pretty well, but barely runs -CURRENT. Little to recommend unless you're worried about your laptop blowing away in a windstorm; it's one of the heavier "laptops" around. -Ed edhall@weirdnoise.com > -- > Darryl Okahata > darrylo@soco.agilent.com > > DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not > constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or > of the little green men that have been following him all day. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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