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Date:      Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:57:20 +0200
From:      Terje Elde <terje@heathcomm.no>
To:        Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Which laptop? Any comment on the vaios?
Message-ID:  <19990813095720.D19818@mordor.xti.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990812103622.A4343@netmonger.net>; from Christopher Masto on Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:36:22AM -0400
References:  <19990812102308.C27376@mordor.xti.org> <19990812103622.A4343@netmonger.net>

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* Christopher Masto (chris@netmonger.net) [990812 14:36]:

> Here's another beyond-satisfied 505 user.  I bought the TX.  Now the
> TR is out, which is identical except that it comes with the 7-hour
> battery and costs $200 less.

Cool, 7 hour should last for a while :)

> As has been said, everything works.  And I'm not running PAO.. it all
> works under -current.  (Except for the firewire, but I don't
> particularly care)  I can even hotsync my pilot with the IR port.

Which software supports the pilots? And which pilots are supported?

> Installation was done by booting the floppy with the supplied external
> floppy drive, and installing over a network with a (non-supplied) 3c589.
> I now have a Linksys, which is considerably less expensive and works
> just fine.

You installed 2.2.8?

> One note.. there are new "Z505" models out which have a bigger screen,
> lower battery life, builtin ethernet, etc.  Apparently they have gone
> to using winmodems in them.  The regular 505 line has a NON-winmodem,
> which works just fine with FreeBSD.

=46rom jdp.com I get informed that they have real modems.

Terje Elde

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