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 -- 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
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