From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 24 12:25:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from lunatic.oneinsane.net (lunatic.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9CB937B77F for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:25:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net) Received: by lunatic.oneinsane.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C14E9196; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:25:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:25:22 -0800 From: Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson To: Greg Lehey Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? Message-ID: <20000324122522.A47002@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Reply-To: Ron Rosson References: <20000324100833.F1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <200003241859.KAA10439@mina.sr.hp.com> <20000324111211.L1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000324111211.L1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:12:12AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD lunatic.oneinsane.net 3.4-STABLE X-Moon: The Moon is Waning Gibbous (79% of Full) X-Opinion: What you read here is my IMHO X-Disclaimer: I am a firm believer in RTFM X-WWW: http://www.oneinsane.net X-PGP-KEY: http://www.oneinsane.net/~insane/insane2-pgp5i.txt X-Uptime: 12:20PM up 1 day, 14:14, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Greg Lehey was heard blurting out: > 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. > Well I have a Fujitsu E-360 Lifebook. Here is the Specs P2 333Mhz 64 Megs of Mem Trident Video Running at 1024x768 16bpp 13.1 screen 6Gig HD Supported sound Supported PCMCIA Using it now. Works all great under 4.x TIA -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was /dev/null and *void() ------------------------------------------------------------------- I haven't lost my mind,......... it's backed up on a disk somewhere. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message