From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 08:04:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A51216A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:04:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.lambertfam.org (www.lambertfam.org [216.223.208.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04DC043D55 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:04:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2852934D64 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:04:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.lambertfam.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.lambertfam.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01160-08 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:04:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from laptop.lambertfam.org (ool-182db8f6.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.184.246]) by mail.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD2F34D50 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:04:31 -0500 (EST) Received: by laptop.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1C8BEC14D; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:04:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:04:29 -0500 From: Scott Lambert To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040331160429.GA58940@laptop.lambertfam.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <406A42DD.6090308@pacific.net.sg> <20040331135633.67DC35D07@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040331135633.67DC35D07@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at lambertfam.org Subject: Re: The Best Laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:04:42 -0000 On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 05:56:31AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:02:37 +0800 > > From: Erich Dollansky > > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > > > Hi, > > > > Nate Williams wrote: > > > > > (which I consider to be absolute junk), and numerous Toshibas. > > > Note, the Toshiba's were nice, but weren't nearly as usable as the > > > Thinkpads. > > > > Toshibas are only usable when they are Tecras or Porteges. I would > > not recommend the others. > > Before going with a Toshiba, be sure to try the keyboard. I know > of several people who have ditched Tecra's and I rejected them > because of the keyboards. They often require special X hacks to avoid > double-striking due to the excessive bouncing. I never had that problem with my Satellite. The only keyboard issue I had was the up arrow would get stuck occasionally. My new Compaq Presario keyboard sometimes seems to need the key to be pressed harder than I think necessary to actually generate a keypress event. I do have a double bounce problem with the mouse buttons on this %&# !@$% touchpad. I want my trackpoint back. And for the original poster. The Compaq seems pretty solidly built; Better than a friend's two year old Dell Inspiron (2800?) I had to clean viruses and spyware off last week. My model Compaq probably doesn't qualify as the perfect FreeBSD laptop because it is low end and only has a 1024x768 screen. The ACPI ASL has problems which prevent the acpi_video module from working and the last time I tried to suspend (S3), it didn't wake up. There have been a few imports of acpi code since then that I haven't had a chance to try out. For the price, I think it makes a decent FreeBSD workstation without a lot of effort being required. Yeah, I was shocked too. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/resume.html