From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 19:09:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70BC0106564A for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:09:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdh_lists@yahoo.com) Received: from web56808.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web56808.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.97.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0903A8FC14 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:09:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdh_lists@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 46203 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Mar 2008 19:09:43 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=U6pp01QTLmT7tdm+uidGCm29nX8GHrSyGHXgNd3LZ1+kaU9mkBWjtUHxuZov8SHgiOFQzQXa2Yr6zsXXhkmUSF4CPHvuBLoe7hMcG85QgkqaS1YTXd6wYSGIuc2df/hYGO8js8wvizQ+4bqM+lLzkExEdjgXEurArksDTeJMbkE=; X-YMail-OSG: _dArsCIVM1mCDgTQjlj5yKwoPFlwoirhdIiXnW5DIVrzLaZLkCrSOCXGwfJjv0kvHGwHvyVQ4qpvPI3XO2.uGZESEt6H.PCH9Jwwo0eOGp07eofGRlQ- Received: from [71.61.66.195] by web56808.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:09:42 PDT Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:09:42 -0700 (PDT) From: mdh To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org, Joe Demeny In-Reply-To: <20080327190602.GA75564@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <172332.45773.qm@web56808.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:09:44 -0000 --- David Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:53:57PM -0400, Joe Demeny > wrote: > > > > In the end, the best advice seems to be indeed to > take the FreeBSD CD > > to the brick-and-mortar store... > > Or you could purchase an Apple Mac Book and have a > commercially > supported Unix pre-installed. Guess that would take > all the "fun" out of > it? While I like Mac products and OSX is pretty cool, I still find their laptops a bit pricey. By the by, has anyone tried FreeBSD on one of those little Asus EEEpc sublaptops? A real, tiny, i386 laptop for $300 (plus maybe a bit more for an additional SD card to bump the storage some) seems like a truly awesome deal. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping