From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 24 11:13: 0 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 528A137B77F; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:12:52 -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 FAA05579; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 05:42:30 +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 LAA02341; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:12:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:12:12 -0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Darryl Okahata Cc: Mike Smith , mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? Message-ID: <20000324111211.L1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <20000324100833.F1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <200003241859.KAA10439@mina.sr.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200003241859.KAA10439@mina.sr.hp.com>; from darrylo@sr.hp.com on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:59:11AM -0800 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 10:59:11 -0800, Darryl Okahata wrote: > 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. 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