From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 24 11: 0: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E89B37B990; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:59:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from postal.sr.hp.com (postal.sr.hp.com [15.4.46.173]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E97B1; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:59:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com (root@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by postal.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id KAA00855; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:59:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id KAA10439; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:59:12 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003241859.KAA10439@mina.sr.hp.com> To: Greg Lehey Cc: Mike Smith , mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:08:33 PST." <20000324100833.F1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.5) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:59:11 PST From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey 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 DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message