Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 11:18:08 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com Cc: mestery@visi.com, Dann Lunsford <dann@greycat.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended laptops for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990628111808.L15144@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990627183324.A38269@ontario.mooseriver.com>; from Josef Grosch on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 06:33:24PM -0700 References: <3776BE9B.E0F19030@greycat.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9906271927040.14384-100000@isis.visi.com> <19990627183324.A38269@ontario.mooseriver.com>
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On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 18:33:24 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 07:28:42PM -0500, mestery@visi.com wrote: >> On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Dann Lunsford wrote: >> >>> Hi! I need some advice (or at least some information :-)) about buying >>> a laptop. What brands/models support FreeBSD best, etc.? >>> For instance, today I saw a ThinkPad 1472 (pretty sure that was the >>> model) with 14" screen, 6.4G drive, DVD/CD, 64Meg, etc; looked real >>> nice, just what I need for the trips I'll be making, if it only runs >>> FreeBSD. Will it? I have an old ThinkPad 750C running FreeBSD now, >>> which is why I'm looking at the 1472, but I'd really like to have >>> peoples' opinions. >>> >> Along these lines, does anyone have any experience with the Dell >> Inspiron 3500? Dell has a real nice deal now (14.1 inch display, 64MB >> RAM, 4.2GB drive, CD-ROM) for ~$2,000. Has anyone used one of these >> with FreeBSD before? I know firsthand the Dell's are nice machines, as >> my father has one. But I don't know if anyone's used the Inspiron's >> with FreeBSD. > > I have a Dell Latitude CPi D266XT. A Pentium II/Celeron 266. 64 meg of ram > and 4.3 gig hard disk. It has 2 PCMCIA slots, a 14.1" display, and two > "bays" in the front. The bay on the left is for the battery. The bay on the > right can hold a floppy drive, a CD-ROM drive, or an additional battery. > With both batteries installed the laptop can run for 7 hours without being > plugged in. The laptop comes with both the floppy and CD-ROM drive. The > floppy can be run off the parallel port. > > I had no trouble installing FreeBSD 3.2 on this machine and running X with > the neo-magic X server I can get 1024x768 resolution. Damn nice machine. I > understand that this model is being discontinued so, if you can find one, > you should be able to get one a a pretty good price. Your particular model is being discontinued. My Latitude CPi was discontinued to make way for yours (I have a P/II-266 in mine). The replacement will probably also be called Latitude CPi. The Dell web site will give you the current configuration options. One thing to note is that the two batteries are not the same; the bays have different shapes. I have two batteries for my Latitude, but they're both left batteries. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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