From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 4 13:58:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h013.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53D8937B719 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:58:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from otterr@telocity.com) Received: (cpmta 19495 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2001 13:58:09 -0800 Received: from dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com (HELO zoso) (216.227.91.85) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.220) with SMTP; 4 Mar 2001 13:58:09 -0800 X-Sent: 4 Mar 2001 21:58:09 GMT From: "Otter" To: , Subject: RE: Can you recommend... Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:47:22 -0500 Message-ID: <000301c0a4f4$b234bcb0$1401a8c0@zoso> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <3AA2C3CB.76E6BAF3@worldnet.att.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's quite a task to keep up with all the new models coming out every day. If you'd like to contribute, consider joining the FreeBSD documentation project. For a list of comments, hacks, etc.... check out http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html. I'm not sure what you need in a laptop, but I can personally recommend a Toshiba Satellite 330CDS, as all of its components were supported under 4.2. It has a 266MHz processor. I'm not sure if you're in the market for something that old. Look around there's plenty of good deals. You might even be able to find the rare auction on Ebay of someone with a laptop, FreeBSD pre-installed. That's where I sold mine. -Otter > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gan Starling > Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 5:38 PM > To: questions@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Can you recommend... > > > Can you recommend a short list, by MAKE & MODEL of off-the-shelf > low-to-mid priced LAPTOP computers from any internet or > bricks-and-mortar source? Vendors like Gateway have contracts with > Microsoft and won't admit of anything Unix-ish. > > I wish to first buy a supported laptop and then install FreeBSD on it. > > I have the list of supported devices, but I don't trust the > sales staff > of any store...for good and sufficient reason based upon sad past > experience. > > Thanks much, > > Gan Starling > Kalamazoo MI > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message