Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 09:28:37 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: oli <olner@gmx.net>, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Used Laptop Message-ID: <3B695585.501B3954@mitre.org> References: <8019841954.20010801213213@gmx.net> <3B69547B.D2EB8163@mitre.org>
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Jason Andresen wrote: > > oli wrote: > > > > Hello mobile, > > > > I'm successfully riding my Toshiba 420CDS on 4.3 but it still lacks > > performance (X-Browser is slooooow, harddisk is small). > > > > About buying some used, faster machine there are some questions left. > > > > Toshiba and IBM are the only manufacurers building trackpoints into > > their laptops (AFAIK). Anything else is not for me, because i hate > > touchpads. > > If by trackpoint you mean that little nub between the G and H keys, my > Dell Latitude has one, in fact all of the modern Dells seem to have it. > They also have a touchpad that can be disabled under Windows (I've never > tried though, because I love it), I don't know if FreeBSD (or XFree) > supports disabling the touchpad though. Oops. Next time I need to do a bit more fact checking before I mouth off. It looks like the low end Dell laptops still don't have the trackpoint. Unfortunatly, from the tone of your message, it sounds like you are looking for a low end laptop, so this probably isn't the path for you. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| 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
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