From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 24 10:35:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C4D37B854 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:35:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com ([216.88.157.130]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA05541; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 05:05:06 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA01974; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:34:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:34:41 -0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Peter Radcliffe Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? Message-ID: <20000324103440.H1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <20000324100833.F1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <200003241820.KAA00932@mass.cdrom.com> <20000324132142.D13572@pir.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000324132142.D13572@pir.net>; from pir@pir.net on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:21:42PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 24 March 2000 at 13:21:42 -0500, Peter Radcliffe wrote: > Mike Smith probably said: >> If style is an issue, get a Vaio or some other pepsi-inspired product. >> If, OTOH, you want a system to work on, the i7500 will probably meet your >> needs. 8) > > Meeeeeooow :) > > (one of the reasons I bought an ultraslim vaio was so I would work on > a plane, after seeing people with the larger laptops not be able to > put it in their knees/table and open the screen far enough to see it > without it hitting the seat in front). Good point. I'm taking the opposite approach: I explain to the moneygivers that a transpacific flight in economy class means that I can't do any work, so they should send me business class :-) Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message