From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Nov 8 13:29:24 2002 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 9753337B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 13:29:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.lambertfam.org (www.lambertfam.org [216.223.196.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0107C43E7B for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 13:29:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) Received: from laptop.lambertfam.org (unknown [10.1.0.2]) by mail.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7705A3518F for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:29:14 -0500 (EST) Received: by laptop.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2659A28B15; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:29:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:29:12 -0500 From: Scott Lambert To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using a laptop as a main machine Message-ID: <20021108212912.GA68137@laptop.lambertfam.org> Mail-Followup-To: mobile@freebsd.org References: <200211071824.NAA20180@dreadnought.cnchost.com> <200211080925.45799.bts@babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211080925.45799.bts@babbleon.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:25:44AM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > THE most important feature on a laptop BY FAR is a good warrenty. Warranties are probably a good thing. However, I have had no service issues with my two year old Toshiba. It's probably time for a new battery but that is the extent of my hardware problems. I don't use a desk very often and spend at least six hours a day, every day, on the thing. It's a laptop so I keep it in my lap. If it dies, I will be better off spending the extra waranty money on a replacement. After reading your message, I *know* my replacement will *not* be a Dell. :-/ I don't care how good their service is. Doing without my laptop, even for a weekend, would be nerve-wracking. > I insist on a three-year warrenty, which is why I buy Dells. Their > service is excellent. I didnt get "on-site" service, but they pick up > and deliver via Airborne Express, and if I ship it on Friday I have it > back by Tuesday morning, so never without it for more than three days. > > If you use your laptop -- really use it, and I carry mine everywhere; > in and back to work every day, on my lap with the wireless card > outside while watching the kids play, in my car while waiting for > people; I even carry it around the house with me from room to room -- > then it *will* require service. Not in my experience. And I'm famous for breaking solid steel cubes. > - Display. It should be high-resolution (at least 1400x1050 at this > point) and large. I would like more resolution but 1024x768 is still doing it for me on my 13.1" screen. I would want a physically larger screen to go with a higher resolution. > - All the features of a desktop (CPU, memory, etc). Do not go > backwards on anything no matter how tempting for other features or you > are almost certain to dislike it. (Well, ok, if you have an 80G drive > that's never been more than 50% full you could probably drop back on > that . . .) When I bought my laptop I installed more disk and RAM than all but one of my ISP servers. It already had more CPU than all but 3 of the boxes. (2 years ago, small, 20,000 user ISP) It still builds world on 4.7 in 66 minutes. The additional RAM was a good idea. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message