From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Dec 6 14:58:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cpqdl380-7.wac.com (cpqdl380-7.wac.com [208.161.116.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816B037B417 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:58:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from NATHAN (unverified [206.151.38.45]) by cpqdl380-7.wac.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.4) with SMTP id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:58:06 -0800 Message-ID: <009d01c17ea9$b6037fe0$f5c8a8c0@NATHAN> From: To: "Mark Sergeant" Cc: References: <002301c17e92$26f8d050$f5c8a8c0@NATHAN> <20011206141034.Z92148@elvis.mu.org> <003101c17e95$8300f730$f5c8a8c0@NATHAN> <200112062241.fB6MfFH00553@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Subject: Re: notebook/laptop Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:59:50 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 very cool! i'll have to look in to that. why is it do you think your modem doesn't work? is it internal? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Sergeant" To: ; "Alfred Perlstein" Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:41 PM Subject: Re: notebook/laptop > If you are looking in that league i'd also recommend looking at toshiba's as > well, everything but my modem works on my portege 4000 with DVD/CD-RW burns @ > 8x as well ! > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:35:15 -0800, said: > > > > > Alfred, > > > > thanks for the info. i've talked to several people about this same topic > > and they've all said dell as well. > > they're not too bad on the affordable side either. that might be something > > i'll go for. i was also thinking on > > the higher end pricing maybe a vaio or fujitsu lifebook? but i've not found > > anything to say yes or no on the > > support of those two? any ideas? > > > > nathan@corp.wac.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Alfred Perlstein" > > To: > > Cc: > > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:10 PM > > Subject: Re: notebook/laptop > > > > > > > * nathan@corp.wac.com [011206 14:09] wrote: > > > > > > > > freebsd-mobile, > > > > > > > > hi everyone, im about to purchase a laptop and would like to know if > > > > anyone has any links, input, or > > > > ideas of what to get. i've seen a couple of websites with some reviews > > and > > > > have read up one the PAO site > > > > for release info and supported hardware. but im still hanging on the > > > > question "what is the best for the money, and > > > > what will give me less hassle for the money?". if you have any ideas or > > > > information for me to research on that'd > > > > be great. thanks for the information/help in advance! > > > > > > Every Dell that I've gotten my hands on has "just worked", X and all, > > > however you may want to search the archives because I have seen some > > > reports of problems with X for some people. > > > > > > -- > > > -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] > > > 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," > > > start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' > > > http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > -- > Mark Sergeant | url: http://www.snsonline.net/ > Unix Systems Administrator | email: msergeant@snsonline.net > disclaimer: http://www.snsonline.net/disclaimer/ | mobile: +61 4 1271 42631 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message