From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Aug 2 6:28:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DFEF37B403 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 06:28:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72DScD01085; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:28:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72DSbX09788; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:28:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 7218416; Thu, 02 Aug 2001 09:28:14 -0400 Message-ID: <3B695585.501B3954@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 09:28:37 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: oli , mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Used Laptop References: <8019841954.20010801213213@gmx.net> <3B69547B.D2EB8163@mitre.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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