Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 11:32:05 -0500 From: "Michael W. Oliver" <michael@gargantuan.com> To: Jules Gilbert <julesg@newebmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggestions wanted Message-ID: <20041211163205.GB85957@gargantuan.com> In-Reply-To: <41BB1C7C.5030907@newebmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2004-12-11T11:12:44-0500, Jules Gilbert wrote: > 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. I had just been running a similar thread on the amd64@ list and had a couple of replies. My first inclination was towards the Acer Ferrari 3400, which received a favorable response. However, after spending many hours researching, I decided to go with the Sager 4750-V, which I ordered yesterday. For the money, you can't beat the features. I bought it from discountlaptops.com. I would have bought it from pctorque.com if they were outside Florida, but since they are here in Florida with me, I would have been nailed with sales tax. AMD Athlon 64 3400+ (2.2GHz with 1MB L2 cache) 1GB DDR SDRAM ATI Radeon 9700 (M11) with 128MB 17" WSXGA LCD 8x DVD+-RW (dual layer even!) Realtek gigabit LAN Gigabyte (Atheros Super-G) WLAN Bluetooth 4-in-1 media card reader TV tuner (overkill, but what the hell...) 1 Serial port, which is becoming rare in laptops (needed by me big time) ..misc other stuff you can find online -- Michael W. Oliver [see complete headers for contact information] [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBuyEFsWv7q8X6o8kRAqXLAKCEcmmAoqyETHIVVgssHxSB8PWO7QCeP5bS uk22+jKQOwE0NPsKM0NIfiA= =MKid -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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