From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Sep 7 08:26:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA24267 for mobile-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 08:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from indurain.cse.ogi.edu (indurain.cse.ogi.edu [129.95.50.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA24261 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 08:26:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by indurain.cse.ogi.edu with SMTP (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA03236; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 08:26:18 -0700 Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 08:26:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Inouye To: Nate Williams Cc: Peter Dufault , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High-resolution displays In-Reply-To: <199709052037.OAA10275@rocky.mt.sri.com> Message-Id: Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The Toshiba Satellite Pros (420/430) have built in power supplies so you only need the external power cord. We have several around OGI running Linux + XFree86 3.2 in 800x600 mode internally and externally. I doubt the CD-ROM is the most vulnerable component of the laptop. I have seen more IDE drives, displays, and mobile modules (motherboards) go bad and have yet to see a problem with CD-ROMs. As for the usefulness of a CD-ROM, I have a Toshiba 4900CT and an IBM 560E, and neither of them has a CD-ROM. (My metric is the lowest pound per display area ratio. :-) I install most things over the network and bought a Panasonic 2X external PCMCIA CD-ROM at Fry's for $99 to facilitate Windows OEM SR2 installs (where you have to wipe the disk clean before installing the OS). -- Disclaimer: The opinions stated here are mine and NOT those of the Oregon Graduate Institute or Intel Corporation. -- Jon Inouye EMAIL: jinouye@mailbox.jf.intel.com Mobile Communications Operations WWW : http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~jinouye Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR PGP fingerprint: 53 4F 43 8E 18 F2 1F 25 E2 66 22 C1 E7 9A 3C 0A On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > > > *All* of the laptops I've ever used (NEC, IBM, Toshiba, Fujitsu, HP) > > > have external power supplies. > > > > The Toshibas at one of my clients have built in power supplies and > > take a line cord on the back. I don't know the model, but they > > have both older 486 systems and some newer Pentium systems. > > That's different than my experience. > > > I'm more willing to trade off weight for having everything well > > packaged in one place than the market. > > To each his own. I spend enough time on the road *NOT* using the > externals that having a light-weight laptop is a much bigger deal than > having one with everything built-in. It's the 'unix' geek in me I > guess. "Small is beautiful". ;) ;) ;) > > > Nate >