From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 24 15:28:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [208.164.68.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2164637BC7F for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:28:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA30294; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:28:52 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:28:52 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: Jonathan Towne , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? In-Reply-To: <200003242325.SAA94724@whizzo.transsys.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 Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > I guess the only drawback is no CD-ROM or DVD of any kind for that > > kind of pricing. I haven't really tried typing on the keyboard but I can > > say that it's way more useful than the WinCE machines like the HP 950LX. > > You can have small, or you can have more features/stuff. Previously, I used > a Dell Latitude, with two big honking bays for a battery, CDROM drive, > Floppy Disk, and who know what else. 1024x768 screen. Great laptop. Right > until I hauled that damn thing all the way to CeBIT in Hannover and back > last year. The "big and heavy" exceeded the features and thus, new laptop. > > It didn't help that I saw the C-1 at the Sony stand while at CeBIT, either :-) Very true indeed. I just meant the Sony PictureBook for it's size would be way better than the HP 950LX WinCE machine =) Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message