Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:46:25 +0100 From: Pete Carss <itinerant@mac.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Best Laptop Message-ID: <406B03F1.4030907@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <c4d2a1$ti4$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <40686157.3020902@cs.uiowa.edu> <c4d2a1$ti4$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Funny, I've been trying to run FreeBSD on a HP/compaq nx9005, to try and get away from Apple, its definately "money no object"...although the argument has changed - Its not Apple hardware that's dear, and the money saved in setup/fiddling time is probably worth something...its more that I was trying to save money on software, I'm happy using AbiWord/Gnumeric/Eclipse/Blender etc - but they feel pretty schitzophrenic on Mac OS X. Thanks to a recent thread on this list my nx9005 is getting a lot of use - I've had to track current, but its mostly stable. Got powernow working, now It geels like a laptop again...originally I bought it as it was the cheapest non-celeron laptop in the UK - when you crank it up its pretty swift. I does have the best trackpad I've ever used on a laptop. It has a strip on the right with a ridge seperating it from the rest of the tracking area - if you add a ZAxisMapping line to XF86Config it works for scrolling - really sweet. It also has a button to disable the trackpad - realy usefull when your typing... Actually this is my first post to this list...but I owe it quite a lot - I finally feel like I got myself a little unix-go anywhere workhorse - for next to nothing...saved me from gentoo hell Thanks Guys... Pete > > If money is no object and you don't strictly need FreeBSD then I recommend > Powerbooks. Pretty GUI with a true UNIX core (Darwin). My boss has one of > the big 17" models. They're awsome. >
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