From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 8 7:40:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F36C37B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 07:40:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 970C043E6E for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 07:40:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pdb2@u.washington.edu) Received: from u.washington.edu ([12.231.115.57]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021108154045.RLSS3205.sccrmhc03.attbi.com@u.washington.edu>; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 15:40:45 +0000 Message-ID: <3DCBDAFC.2010601@u.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 07:40:44 -0800 From: paul beard Organization: University of Washington User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021101 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Steve (CK)" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptops & FreeBSD? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve (CK) wrote: > My first thought was an iBook or TiBook running OS X but the prohibitive > cost has me second-guessing that option. Maybe if the new IBM PPC chips > were to be introduced before next fall in the iBook I would take this > option but the speed and cost issue makes me not want to do this. I think you may be making too much of the speed and cost issues: an 800 MHz efficient laptop that lets you run an Open Source UNIX and all the popular desktop apps without dual-booting, all for $999, is hard to beat. I have a 600 MHZ thinkpad that cost almost 3 times that and the only time I need the horsepower or could use more is for portupgrades and compiles. That CPU is more than adequate for my typing speed. > I want to make sure it can run FreeBSD well, is somewhat light-weight, > powerful, large screen, good wide keyboard (for my bad wrists), and isn't > crippled by manufacturer's bias towards Win* systems (like Dell). Intel > or AMD processors are both cool; they're both local companies for > me. :) Thanks and i'm very sorry if this isn't the correct list for > this. You could try the mobile@freebsd.org list. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ Washington [D.C.] is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message