Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:58:00 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Nielsen <enkhyl@scient.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, mwlucas@exceptionet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good new 3x laptop? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812141747190.371-100000@ender.sf.scient.com> In-Reply-To: <199812150108.RAA00643@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm about to purchase a laptop to run FreeBSD on. With all this > > > > discussion about PAO and -current differences, I figured I'd better ask > > > > first. ;) > > > > > > > > Can anyone recommend a decent new laptop for FreeBSD? I want to run 3.x. > > > > I'm looking in the sub-$2000 range. > > > > > > Any of the Toshiba Satellite units in that range will give you good > > > service. > > > > How about a high end PII/14" display machine. I need to have > > 3.0-current development system for field compiles. A good docking > > station would be a plus. > > You should be OK with the current crop of Dell systems, as long as you > bear in mind that you can't (yet) do CardBus stuff. They're also very > rugged... I'm going to throw my $0.02 in here because I use (as my regular machine) a Dell Latitude CPi running -current. I have had more hardware problems with this machine than I can count; we've had to replace the LCD three times in the last four months. And now the case is coming apart (I'm not particularly rough on the beast, either). OTOH, it runs -current quite well, and it's relatively fast except when doing large amounts of disk I/O (Dell can't seem to figure out how to make a fast system bus). Also, now that XFree86 supports NeoMagic chips, X works nicely, too. -- Christopher Nielsen Scient: The eBusiness Systems Innovator <http://www.scient.com>; cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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