Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:28:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Gareth Williams <gareth@venditor.com> To: "Julian Stacey Jhs@jhs.muc.de" <jhs@jhs.muc.de> Cc: Munish Chopra <chopra@runbox.com>, <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Purchasing a new laptop...advice? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0106011428160.11007-100000@node0b2a.a2000.nl> In-Reply-To: <200106010838.f518cHX32967@jhs.muc.de>
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Dutch computers use ordinary american keyboards. On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Julian Stacey Jhs@jhs.muc.de wrote: > Munish Chopra wrote: > > I am thinking about getting myself a laptop, as I need to be mobile and > > online this summer. I'd be buying it within the next month, so I'd like > > some advice. I need to be able to run FreeBSD on it (duh!), and I will > > be buying it in Europe, after which I'll take it to North America (will > > I be running into any power supply trouble? surely...), where I'm > > actually moving. > > I don't where you'r moving from, but in case, guessing from your > name, you might be EG Indian, & not aware of the European keyboard > nightmare ;-) ... > > Nearly every European country I'm aware of, has weirdo (non ASCII) > extra characters & a non standard keycap layout, EG French cidillas, > German umlauts, Swedish O's with line through. Germans swop the Y > & Z too. There are 2 German layouts, & 2 more Swiss German ! Even > the British (who have none of these extra characters), still swap > a couple of punctuation marks around relative to USA. > > I use USA layout (BIOS boot default) (even though I'm British in > Germany), it's a pain having either mis-labelled or mis-mapped > keyboards. I had one laptop with black keys & white lettering, > where it wasn't even possible to get an indelible felt pen & write > on the USA keymap. > > Think which country you will buy in, if the supplier or manufacturer > will really guarantee to supply you an alternate keycap set, if > uncertain avoid laptops with black/anthracite/grey keycaps. > > If you really want USA standard, maybe buy mail order from the USA. > If you want to be able to support the extra weirdo European stuff, > perhaps buy from Britain or Eire, there' you'll likely get the > extra keys, but at least default labelled mostly like USA. > > Power: USA 110V 60Hz. Germany/mainland europe 220V nominal 50Hz > Britain: 240V nominal (I saw 248 in my house) 50Hz, (I heard a rumour of a > commmon aim for 230V, but doubt its true.) > > Julian > - > Julian Stacey Unix Consultant - Munich Germany http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ > Ihr Rauchen => mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Kau/Schnupftabak probieren ! > Like Linux ? Then also look at FreeBSD with its 5000+ packages ! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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