From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Sep 7 13:15:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA08845 for mobile-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 13:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA08840 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 13:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16356; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 14:15:08 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 14:15:08 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709072015.OAA16356@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jon Inouye Cc: Nate Williams , Peter Dufault , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: High-resolution displays In-Reply-To: References: <199709052037.OAA10275@rocky.mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The Toshiba Satellite Pros (420/430) have built in power supplies so > you only need the external power cord. We have several around OGI > running Linux + XFree86 3.2 in 800x600 mode internally and externally. > I doubt the CD-ROM is the most vulnerable component of the laptop. > I have seen more IDE drives, displays, and mobile modules (motherboards) > go bad and have yet to see a problem with CD-ROMs. It's not that the CD-ROM is vulnerable, it's that the whole box is more vulnerable because of the need to design 'pop-in' modules. Granted, it's a lot more flexible configuration, but the overall strength of the system can't be as strong as a system that doesn't have the pop-in modules. Nate