From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Nov 10 12:29:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8E637B479 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:29:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp241.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eAAKSWH80210; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:28:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:29:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: John Sconiers Subject: RE: laptop recommendations Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.org, Michael Lucas Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 10-Nov-00 John Sconiers wrote: > M-tech sales an Dell Inspiron-like (An Inspiron has a dell badge this > one doesn't) laptop with more options and even the choice of adding an OS > for less. If you throw in the extra battery, Windows (everyone plays games, right :-P), and Office then you end up with a machine that is $100 less and only does 1400x1050 instead of 1600x1200. However, it still looks quite nice, esp. if you don't want Windoze or Office. I would only recommend the Inspiron for the insane screen though. If you don't need that, get a VAIO. :) > www.discountpcsales.com > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> >> On 10-Nov-00 Michael Lucas wrote: >> > I'm shocked. My new boss has approved about $3k for a UNIX laptop for >> > me. I've never spent that much money on a personal PC in my life. >> > >> > So, any recommendations? I need the ability to use 256meg of RAM and >> > X-windows. >> >> Depends on what you want. If you want something real light and portable, >> the >> various VAIO's I have seen are nice. If you want a big honkin' screen like >> I >> do, then I recommend the Dell Inspiron 5000e with the 1600x1200 screen. If >> you >> don't get the DVD ROM drive and you get the 5 gig hard drive with 128 MB of >> ram >> I believe it is about ~$2800 US. That gives you some room to play with to >> get >> 256 MB of ram at least, and if you can put in a little of your own you can >> get >> a nicer-sized hard drive, etc. The sound works fine in both -stable and >> -current. X works, but you can't use 4.0.1 on it, you have to cvsup the X >> sources and use an X-current server. :-P I haven't tried X 3.3.6, though it >> seems to have a ATI rage 128 driver, so it might work as well. One known >> problem is that apm support won't work under FreeBSD because of a bug in the >> BIOS. :-( pccard and USB work fine though. The real win is the screen >> though. >> :) >> >> > Thanks, >> > Michael >> >> -- >> >> John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ >> PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc >> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message >> > > -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message