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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:12:12 -0800
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What laptop should I buy?
Message-ID:  <20000324111211.L1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200003241859.KAA10439@mina.sr.hp.com>; from darrylo@sr.hp.com on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:59:11AM -0800
References:  <20000324100833.F1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <200003241859.KAA10439@mina.sr.hp.com>

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On Friday, 24 March 2000 at 10:59:11 -0800, Darryl Okahata wrote:
> 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.

Right.  I know about the Inspiron, but I was rather put off by the
appearance.  If it's the only game in town, that decides it.

Greg
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