From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 30 14:56:00 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 4C9B716A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:56:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from schlepper.zs64.net (schlepper.zs64.net [212.12.50.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA5643D55 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:55:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cracauer@schlepper.zs64.net) Received: from schlepper.zs64.net (schlepper [212.12.50.230]) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.12.11/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i6UEtwra040449; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:55:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from cracauer@schlepper.zs64.net) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.12.11/8.12.9/Submit) id i6UEtswS040448; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:55:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:55:54 -0400 From: Martin Cracauer To: Gianmarco Message-ID: <20040730105554.A40381@seagull.cons.org> References: <20040725002730.GA69069@gargantuan.com> <4109C97E.3080003@pacific.net.sg> <20040730042606.GC96313@gargantuan.com> <200407300801.37113.gmarco@giovannelli.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200407300801.37113.gmarco@giovannelli.it>; from gmarco@giovannelli.it on Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:01:36AM +0200 cc: FreeBSD Mobile 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 14:56:00 -0000 Gianmarco wrote on Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:01:36AM +0200: > 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...) Which wireless option do you have? And how the hell do I choose the big display on that mess of a website? Sorry :-) Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ No warranty. This email is probably produced by one of my cats stepping on the keys. No, I don't have an infinite number of cats.