From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 14 17:58:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19590 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:58:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hillbilly.hayseed.net (dnai-207-181-249-194.dsl.dnai.com [207.181.249.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19583 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:58:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from enkhyl@scient.com) Received: from localhost (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hillbilly.hayseed.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA24058; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:58:03 -0800 Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:58:00 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Nielsen X-Sender: enkhyl@ender.sf.scient.com Reply-To: Christopher Nielsen To: Mike Smith cc: Steve Passe , mwlucas@exceptionet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good new 3x laptop? In-Reply-To: <199812150108.RAA00643@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message