Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:59:11 PST From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? Message-ID: <200003241859.KAA10439@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:08:33 PST." <20000324100833.F1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
> What gets me with the Inspiron is less its weight (I'm a big bloke
> after all), but it seems so completely lacking in style. The Latitude
> is a nice box by comparison, but for some reason they don't want to
> fit the big display on it.
As Mike said, the 7500 is a great workhorse, but FreeBSD doesn't
support the Maestro-2E sound chipset used by it (the OSS drivers also
don't work with 4.0-RELEASE and later). If you don't care about sound,
great; if you do, you'll have to wait a while.
I, too, have a 7500, and have been very happy with it.
You'll want to check the -mobile archives and do a search for
"Inspiron". A lot of this has already been hashed and rehashed.
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@sr.hp.com
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