From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 7 5:45:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A82A37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 05:45:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from sumter.awod.com (sumter.awod.com [63.246.96.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3340043FA3 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 05:45:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.176.69]) by sumter.awod.com (8.8.7/8.12.2) with ESMTP id IAA43815 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 08:46:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) X-Authentication-Warning: sumter.awod.com: User sandib [pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net] popped 47 seconds ago Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18h8p3-00006f-00 for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 08:45:41 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 08:45:41 -0500 From: stan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop sugestions? Message-ID: <20030207134541.GC32726@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030207001936.GB16451@teddy.fas.com> <20030207090225.GC81605@big.perpels.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030207090225.GC81605@big.perpels.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.17 X-Uptime: 08:37:31 up 19 days, 12:58, 1 user, load average: 0.13, 0.11, 0.03 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:02:25AM +0100, David Rio wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:19:36PM -0500, stan wrote: > > Looks like I might be getting to order a new laptop at work to replace the > > 4 year old HP that I have. this machine will be a FreeBSD machine. > > great. > > > > > What machines should I be looking at? Assume that I have about $2k to > > spend. > > Try dell. Inspiron 8200 seems great. Of course you must be careful with the > hardware, but for me there is another important feature that I take care > every time I buy a laptop: keyboard. Today, there is a annoying tendency to > put unuseful keyboards on laptops. > Inspirons 8200 are great, but they weigh so much. If you are going to use it > at your work maybe you don't mind that the laptop weigh four-five kg. > Are all it's devices (screen network, modem et all) well supported under FreeBSD? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message