From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 4 18:53:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-129.knology.net [24.214.56.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ECDE37B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 18:53:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f252rNe51281; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 20:53:29 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200103050253.f252rNe51281@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: MisteraSturno@worldnet.att.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can you recommend... In-Reply-To: Message from Gan Starling of "Sun, 04 Mar 2001 16:38:03 CST." <3AA2C3CB.76E6BAF3@worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 20:53:23 -0600 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gan Starling writes: > Can you recommend a short list, by MAKE & MODEL of off-the-shelf > low-to-mid priced LAPTOP computers from any internet or > bricks-and-mortar source? Vendors like Gateway have contracts with > Microsoft and won't admit of anything Unix-ish. > > I wish to first buy a supported laptop and then install FreeBSD on it. > > I have the list of supported devices, but I don't trust the sales staff > of any store...for good and sufficient reason based upon sad past > experience. Faced with a similar desire I ordered an Apple Titanium Powerbook G4 and have preordered MacOS X. All after a brief couple of hours with MacOS X Public Beta convincing myself "This really is Unix." Am expecting all the advantages of Unix plus all the advantages of a commercially supported consumer OS. My new Powerbook is really nice. http://www.apple.com/powerbook/ -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message