Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 11:12:44 -0500 From: Jules Gilbert <julesg@newebmail.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: suggestions wanted Message-ID: <41BB1C7C.5030907@newebmail.com>
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I am in the market for a new laptop. I am particularly interested in a 64-bit AMD based product, which a friend of mine now has on trial. I want 1920 pixels (wow!, it is truely movie quality, too.) Too bad I am too busy to watch 'em... Still, who wants not to have a DVD. Not me... I want something I can run FreeBSD on, WITH good support for both "hotspot" type cards and also I expect to purchase a deal from either Sprint or Cingular for use with one of the service deals they offer. So I want a 64-bit (fast!) laptop with hi-res graphics, and support for 802.11x hot-spot style cards, (builtin being better than PCMCIA cards,) and also a PCMCIA adaptor to accept an as-yet undetermined long-distance cell-tower connection. The rest is pretty usual, sound card, no floppies, etc... Laptops seem to be moving to power supply arrangements which make it impossible to run a laptop off of a car battery. (Now one needs a power inverter.) I guess I am old-fashioned, I like the cigarette lighter as a source of power. If I have to drop something, I'll take a 32-bit system. But computing power is pretty important to me. I have a preferrence of dealing with vendors that can deliver machines WITHOUT windoz. And will pay someone a little more for such equipment if necessary. So what comes to mind... --jg
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