From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jun 27 17:36:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B956B14F06; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 17:36:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajohns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from tasajohns (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA19964; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:53:49 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from ajohns@TurnAround.com.au) From: "Andrew Johns" To: , "Dann Lunsford" Cc: , Subject: RE: Recommended laptops for FreeBSD? Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:35:49 +1000 Message-ID: <000701bec0fe$2b953ee0$4001a8c0@tasajohns.turnaround.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [snip] > On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Dann Lunsford wrote: > > > Hi! I need some advice (or at least some information :-)) > about buying > > a laptop. What brands/models support FreeBSD best, etc.? > > For instance, today I saw a ThinkPad 1472 (pretty sure that was the > > model) with 14" screen, 6.4G drive, DVD/CD, 64Meg, etc; looked real > > nice, just what I need for the trips I'll be making, if it only runs > > FreeBSD. Will it? I have an old ThinkPad 750C running FreeBSD now, > > which is why I'm looking at the 1472, but I'd really like to have > > peoples' opinions. > > > Along these lines, does anyone have any experience with the Dell > Inspiron 3500? Dell has a real nice deal now (14.1 inch display, 64MB > RAM, 4.2GB drive, CD-ROM) for ~$2,000. Has anyone used one of these > with FreeBSD before? I know firsthand the Dell's are nice > machines, as > my father has one. But I don't know if anyone's used the Inspiron's > with FreeBSD. None with the 3500, but the 7000's are pretty awesome - only prob we had was getting X running on the ATI Rage Pro LT - it was the LT that wasn't supported last time we looked. Other than that it absolutely flew - eg:sub 2 and a half minutes for a kernel compile (mind you we had 192 MB RAM in that machine :)) but that was before we added softupdates... Cheers AJ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message