From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jun 1 13:38:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from proxon.bnc.net (proxon.bnc.net [62.225.99.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85BB137B42C for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:38:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from noses@proxon.bnc.net) Received: (from noses@localhost) by proxon.bnc.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f51KcZe97702; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:38:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from noses) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 22:38:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200106012038.f51KcZe97702@proxon.bnc.net> From: Noses To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Purchasing a new laptop...advice? Organization: Noses' cave In-Reply-To: <200106010838.f518cHX32967@jhs.muc.de> X-Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.mobile,mpc.lists.freebsd.mobile User-Agent: tin/1.5.6-20000803 ("Dust") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.3-STABLE (i386)) 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 In article <200106010838.f518cHX32967@jhs.muc.de> Julian Stacey wrote: > 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 ;-) ... If you don't buy your notebook (or any other computer) at the nearest gas station your dealer will be able to ship it with nearly any keyboard you'd like. The only one I had problems with was obtaining a traditional Chinese keyboard (*grin*). > There are 2 German layouts One. Anything else is non-standard. > 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. I've never seen separate keycaps for notebooks; all they'll do is replace entire keyboards. Noses. PS: You might take a look at Kapok (www.kapok.com.tw); I'm quite happy with my 8500P and 8500V and I've ordered them with really exotic keyboards already... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message