From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 24 13:38:19 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 C76D137B5EE for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:38:14 -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 IAA05704; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 08:07:52 +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 NAA03049; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:37:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:37:36 -0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Sean Eric Fagan Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? Message-ID: <20000324133736.R1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <200003242059.NAA09850@nomad.yogotech.com> <200003242111.NAA01676.kithrup.freebsd.mobile@mass.cdrom.com> <200003242118.NAA27332@kithrup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200003242118.NAA27332@kithrup.com>; from sef@kithrup.com on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 01:18:10PM -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 13:18:10 -0800, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > In article <200003242111.NAA01676.kithrup.freebsd.mobile@mass.cdrom.com> you write: >> Why bother bringing your laptop if the screen is too small to do real >> work on? > > My screen is 1024x768x16, and I'm quite happy with it, it turns out. The > 1024x768 is too small for my tastes, but using fvwm and four "virtual > desktops" usually solves that particular problem. Or works around it. > Although I have my laptop set up to do development, its main use is > as an X terminal (and jukebox, now that I've gotten sound working > [although I had to get a cdd binary from 3.4 since the port is > hopelessly broken now :(]). I find that I increasingly use my laptop for maintaining continuity while traveling. For that purpose, I need as close an approximation to my home setup as possible. Unfortunately, nobody seems to sell a laptop with two 1600x1200 displays :-) 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