From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 09:45:58 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 F029E16A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:45:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-45.apple.com [17.250.248.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D17C143D1D for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:45:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from itinerant@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i2VHjw14008876 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:45:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com (82-32-116-200.cable.ubr03.hawk.blueyonder.co.uk [82.32.116.200]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin07/MantshX 3.0) with ESMTP id i2VHjtIR015236 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:45:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <406B03F1.4030907@mac.com> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:46:25 +0100 From: Pete Carss User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040330) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <40686157.3020902@cs.uiowa.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 17:45:59 -0000 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. >