From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Mar 30 13: 3:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from isds.duke.edu (davinci.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9318D37B8D9 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:03:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sto@stat.Duke.EDU) Received: from cayenne.isds.duke.edu (cayenne.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.11]) by isds.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02359 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:03:47 -0500 (EST) Received: (from sto@localhost) by cayenne.isds.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12689 for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:03:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:03:46 -0500 From: "Sean O'Connell" To: FreeBSD mobile Subject: Re: Vaio vs Portege plus modems Message-ID: <20000330160346.L12557@stat.Duke.EDU> Reply-To: "Sean O'Connell" Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD mobile References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from up@3.am on Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 03:48:38PM -0500 X-Organization: Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org up@3.am stated: > > I'm looking into getting a laptop that I can run FreeBSD on, and I've > narrowed my choice down to (in order of preference): > > Toshiba Portege 3110CT (about $500-$600 cheaper) > Sony Vaio Z505HE > > My main concern at this point is the modem. Neither of their websites > indicate whether the built-in modem is a Winmodem or not, nor could I find > a conclusion in the archives of this list. > > Can anyone tell me from experience if this is the case? > if not, recommended alternatives? > Would PAO be needed in either case? > > TIA, > James- Both (i believe) are the evil winmodems. Sony used to use real modems (for instance, the one in my 505TR is real). As far as I can tell, the portege still only uses svga on the video front (i find that to be a bit too constrainng much prefer xga on my machine even on the same size screen), but it does have built-in ethernet. the Sony n505's give you xga (on a 10.4"), alas no enet. the z505's are slightly larger and have enet also and a nice 12.1" screen (based on a z505r that i have setup). also, it looks like Sharp recently rolled out the Actius A290 which has xga on an 11.3" screen, builtin enet and a 9gb hdd all at around 3#'s ... looks pretty exciting from a spec standpoint. it most likely has a winmodem. also, not sure about availability on these things. I would strongly recommend using 4.0 releas unless you plan on using a parallel port zip driver. this is broken at the moment, and I haven't seen anything to suggest it has been fixed (i could be wrong). S ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message