From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 28 11:21:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA23355 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 11:21:43 -0700 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (sri.MT.net [204.94.231.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA23350 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 11:21:39 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA21158; Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:23:44 -0600 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:23:44 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199509281823.MAA21158@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), laufen@sol.med.ge.com, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop Recomended for Freebsd In-Reply-To: <199509281814.LAA12950@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199509281816.MAA21128@rocky.sri.MT.net> <199509281814.LAA12950@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > > > I'm tempted towards an IBM Power 820 or 840. You can get an 800x600 > > > display on the things. > > > > Are they PPC boxes? If so, they aren't (yet) supported. > > Why yes, yes they are PPC boxes. I doubt the user would have much use for a PPC box until FreeBSD supports it. Do you something we don't about PPC and FreeBSD? ;) [ 1024 x 768 displays on laptops ] > > I hear it'll be awhile for that. > > Tadpole has shipped one for the SPARCBook for about a year and a half now. The biggest problem facing them is usefulness and battery life. Either they aren't active matrix, or the battery life is useless for real work. I just read about a new PC box Tadpole is shipping, but it still only has an 800x600 screen. :( > The price is dropping, but about 6 months ago it was still as $5000 > premium because of economies of scale. $5K for a laptop isn't that expensive. Oh, do you mean an extra $5K just for the screen? Ouch! Nate