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Subject: Re: recommendation for FreeBSD laptop configuration for sound production?
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> I have my eye on the new Tohsiba T300CT:
> 
> marketing bs: http://www.toshiba.com/tais/csd/products/portable/portege/overview/index.htm
> 
> specs: http://www.toshiba.com/tais/csd/products/pspecs2/index.htm
> 
> I don't think its shipping yet; NECX doesn't have them in stock.
> 
> P133MMX/32mb/PCI/1.51gb/1024x600active/ 24bit color, 3.8lbs!

Hmm, sounds pretty sexy.  But, I'd be wary of them until I could sit
down and type of the keyboard for awhile.  Again, like I said to the
other poster, the IBM/DEC units give you a big screen for almost the
same weight (4.1lbs.)

> Personally, the only pointing device I like is the `eraser', so I
> haven't even considered the NECs.  The HPs subnotebooks would be worth
> considering if they didn't have that *stupid* pop-out mouse.

I agree.  My old box has a trackball (bleah!), and I've used the 'pads',
and I hate them.  That's another reason I like the IBM's.


Nate