From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon May 28 14: 6:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F8E37B422 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 14:06:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from europax@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010528210651.HUTN29796.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Mon, 28 May 2001 14:06:51 -0700 Message-ID: <3B12BDAD.8E8C4BF1@home.com> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 14:05:49 -0700 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Munish Chopra Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Purchasing a new laptop...advice? References: <20010528204818.C12149@messiah.megadeb.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. > > It should be a pretty decent machine, not super high-end but still > competitive. Preferrably decent battery life (how are Transmeta based > laptops doing?), sound, min. screen resolution 1024x768. DVD would be > nice, but won't kill me if I don't get it. Shouldn't cost too much > either, but I guess that's a general requirement :) > > I've been looking at http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html to > get an idea, but I'm a bit stumped. I've been thinking Sony VAIO, but > I'm pretty sure those things are on the expensive side. Also, I don't > know much or anything about PCMCIA vs. CardBus (CardBus is 5.x only, > right?), so if someone has any pointers there and to laptop know-how in > general, I'd be grateful. > > Please cc me as I'm not on the list. > > Thanks. > > -- > -Munish > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message I've been very happy with my Acer 602TER. Sound and video supported well. CDRW works with burncd. Don't know about modem. I use the internal ethernet. But the big plus is battery life. Now on Windoze it runs for 6 hours. You get only half that on FreeBSD, but thats still very good. Cost $2500USD. Rob. ps. even OpenBSD worked very well with this laptop, and then I could use cdrecord with the scsci-atapi. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message