From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 30 06:02:17 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 DBE8516A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 06:02:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freebsd.giovannelli.com (freebsd.giovannelli.com [83.149.149.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7624943D62 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 06:02:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gmarco@giovannelli.it) Received: from latitude.giovannelli.com ([10.254.254.147]) i6U618cU037257 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:01:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gmarco@giovannelli.it) From: Gianmarco To: FreeBSD Mobile Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:01:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040725002730.GA69069@gargantuan.com> <4109C97E.3080003@pacific.net.sg> <20040730042606.GC96313@gargantuan.com> In-Reply-To: <20040730042606.GC96313@gargantuan.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407300801.37113.gmarco@giovannelli.it> X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter 1.1-beta; AVE 6.26.0.10; VDF 6.26.0.51 (host: freebsd.giovannelli.com) Subject: Re: new laptop suggestions - not the usual stuff 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: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 06:02:18 -0000 On Friday 30 July 2004 06:26, Michael W. Oliver wrote: > Thanks to you all for your suggestions. Unfortunately, I think I am > going to have to give up on the AMD64 piece for now and just settle for > everything else in a HP NC8000. My wife has a NC3000 from work and it > is a very nice machine, so I am ok with the NC8000. > > P.S. - my desire for the pointing stick is born of using ThinkPads for > many years, and I would certainly get a ThinkPad instead of the NC8000 > if they were anywhere close to one another in price... I have a dell latitude d600, which has the stick (plus the standard pointing system) and works very well with FreeBSD (display 14.1 1400x1050, low weight, acpi working, wifi supportted, gigabit ethernet too etc etc...)