From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue May 2 7: 2:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2890037BD8E for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 07:02:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rooneg@rpi.edu) Received: from cortez.sss.rpi.edu (rooneg@cortez.sss.rpi.edu [128.113.113.33]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA260692; Tue, 2 May 2000 10:02:34 -0400 Received: from localhost (rooneg@localhost) by cortez.sss.rpi.edu (8.8.5/8.8.6) with SMTP id KAA160164; Tue, 2 May 2000 10:02:46 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: cortez.sss.rpi.edu: rooneg owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 10:02:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Rooney X-Sender: rooneg@cortez.sss.rpi.edu To: Nick Barnes Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new notebook In-Reply-To: <15557.957275750@raven.ravenbrook.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 2 May 2000, Nick Barnes wrote: > I'm buying a new notebook to run FreeBSD. Probably somewhere in the > $2000-$3500 range. It has to be dockable and I would like it to be > fairly lightweight. I don't need a zillion peripherals. I want to > avoid spending ages configuring Xfree86. > > Recommendations? i'm currently using a dell inspiron 3800 with no real problems. XFree86 4.0 works perfectly, and it's a really nice machine. Note that sound is not yet supported. Also, i haven't yet gotten PCCARD ethernet running, but that's just becuase my card isn't currently supported (Xircom 10/100, i bought it separate, so i don't know if the card they bundle would work or not). I imagine that if i had a supported card it wouldn't be a problem betting it working. APM works fine. Don't know if it's dockable or not, but i imagine it probably is. Can't think of any real problems with the machine. I spent about 2000, for a pentium III 500, 64 Megs of Ram, and a 4.8 gig hard drive. If i had it to do again i might get more ram, just so Quake 3 would run smoother under windows. -garrett x----------------------------------------------------------------------x | rooneg@rpi.edu garrett rooney | | http://www.rpi.edu/~rooneg unix geek | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | unrequited love is neat because it lasts so much longer - w. t. c. | x----------------------------------------------------------------------x To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message