From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jun 27 18:33:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ontario.mooseriver.com (ontario.mooseriver.com [208.138.31.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2AA71524B; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 18:33:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch@ontario.mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by ontario.mooseriver.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA38398; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 18:33:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 18:33:24 -0700 From: Josef Grosch To: mestery@visi.com Cc: Dann Lunsford , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended laptops for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990627183324.A38269@ontario.mooseriver.com> Reply-To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com References: <3776BE9B.E0F19030@greycat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from mestery@visi.com on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 07:28:42PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 07:28:42PM -0500, mestery@visi.com wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Dann Lunsford wrote: > > > Hi! I need some advice (or at least some information :-)) about buying > > a laptop. What brands/models support FreeBSD best, etc.? > > For instance, today I saw a ThinkPad 1472 (pretty sure that was the > > model) with 14" screen, 6.4G drive, DVD/CD, 64Meg, etc; looked real > > nice, just what I need for the trips I'll be making, if it only runs > > FreeBSD. Will it? I have an old ThinkPad 750C running FreeBSD now, > > which is why I'm looking at the 1472, but I'd really like to have > > peoples' opinions. > > > Along these lines, does anyone have any experience with the Dell > Inspiron 3500? Dell has a real nice deal now (14.1 inch display, 64MB > RAM, 4.2GB drive, CD-ROM) for ~$2,000. Has anyone used one of these > with FreeBSD before? I know firsthand the Dell's are nice machines, as > my father has one. But I don't know if anyone's used the Inspiron's > with FreeBSD. I have a Dell Latitude CPi D266XT. A Pentium II/Celeron 266. 64 meg of ram and 4.3 gig hard disk. It has 2 PCMCIA slots, a 14.1" display, and two "bays" in the front. The bay on the left is for the battery. The bay on the right can hold a floppy drive, a CD-ROM drive, or an additional battery. With both batteries installed the laptop can run for 7 hours without being plugged in. The laptop comes with both the floppy and CD-ROM drive. The floppy can be run off the parallel port. I had no trouble installing FreeBSD 3.2 on this machine and running X with the neo-magic X server I can get 1024x768 resolution. Damn nice machine. I understand that this model is being discontinued so, if you can find one, you should be able to get one a a pretty good price. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.2 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message