From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 10 8:48:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from gta.com (gw.gta.com [199.120.225.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1567D37BACE for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:48:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lab@gta.com) Received: from gta.com (GTA internal mail system) by gta.com id LAA94390; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:54:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:54:07 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200003101654.LAA94390@gta.com> From: Larry Baird To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for laptop opinions/experiences User-Agent: tin/1.4.2-20000205 ("Possession") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-STABLE (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I just picked up a Sony VAIO PCG-Z505HS. Overall it works great with FreeBSD. The positives are: 1) Very light full size notebook 2) NeoMagic drivers for X seem to work very well. 3) The screen is very shart (easy to look at) 4) Built in 10/100 ethernet (Intel 82557) 5) Very fast (PIII-500) The downsides are: 1) USB floppy only works under current with USB patches from USB project. 2) Built in modem appears to be a winmodem (though I haven't spent any time verifing this). FreeBSD kernel recognizes sound card (sb0). I haven't tried to use sound yet though. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Larry Baird | HTTP://www.gnatbox.com Global Technology Associates, Inc. | Orlando, FL Email: lab@gta.com | TEL 407-380-0220, FAX 407-380-6080 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message