From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jan 30 15: 3:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f303.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.18.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ADE537B6BA for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:03:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:03:20 -0800 Received: from 192.41.0.13 by lw12fd.law12.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:03:20 GMT X-Originating-IP: [192.41.0.13] From: "Max Flatulence" To: K.Mussai@mahatma.org Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommendations for a laptop Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:03:20 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Jan 2001 23:03:20.0397 (UTC) FILETIME=[D6AFFFD0:01C08B10] Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Hello to all, > I am interested in buying a laptop,so tht I can freeBSd > on >it but I am having a bit of difficulty in choosing one. Could >anyone help me on this. >Thank you. >Regards, >Kailesh It depends on what you value in a laptop. Do you want a light laptop (read: slightly older technology) or a heavy notebook (cutting edge tech available)? Do you want to run more than one OS? Do you care about all your features working under each OS? I think most would recommend a Sony Vaio if you want a light laptop. I wanted something that could play all of today's games (in windows), but still run freebsd. I bought the dell insirion 8000. It has some issues: apm -z has issues when resuming (ata hdd wedges the machine upon resume), the sound is not supported under freebsd, and firewire is not currently recognized under freebsd. I have a 3Com Mini PCI 10/100 NIC and use the PCMCIA Lucent WaveLAN Gold for wireless. I highly recommend getting the Mini PCI -- they come in two flavors: fxp or xl -- both come with winmodems but that doesn't bother freebsd. Other notes: I did a current cvs checkout of xfree86 4.0.2 to get video support (1440 x 1050 is grand, the newer i8k's allow for 1600 x 1280 on the same video card). The i8k feels like (is) a very flimsy piece of equipment. It flexes and creaks, non-stop. Given my needs, I would most likely buy the dell inspiron 8000 if I had to do it over again. Max, er, Adam ps: Sorry about the hotmail, last time I posted to freebsd-mobile I got tons of spam from evil, address harvesting slimeballs. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message