From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Sep 19 9:13:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (smtpproxy1.mitre.org [129.83.20.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08ACC37B40C for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:13:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8JGCqE21759; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:12:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8JGCof03587; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:12:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 7662174; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:12:39 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA8C3FF.96973B72@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:12:47 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Barnes Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended notebook for FreeBSD References: <25755.1000903178@thrush.ravenbrook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Nick Barnes wrote: > > I am going to be doing some travelling on business, and need a > notebook for light use. Can freebsd-mobile members recommend a > machine from the current ranges of the major manufacturers? > > My desktop machine runs 4.3-RELENG with X, and I would like the same > on the notebook. I need Ethernet, a modem, and a good screen, but I > don't need a CD drive, a floppy drive (except maybe to install FreeBSD > in the first place), or high performance. You might try ebay. Lots of people on there are nuts and pay way too much for stuff, but occasionally a good deal slips through. Just be careful to check that the seller isn't trying to offload some broken laptop. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message