From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Mar 25 7:54:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D00BD37B56F for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 07:54:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@minmail.net) Received: (qmail 21737 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2000 16:54:34 +0100 Received: from bb-k33274.ls.telenordia.se (HELO pcmarmob) (195.100.68.10) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 25 Mar 2000 16:54:34 +0100 From: "Mark Rowlands" To: Subject: RE: What laptop should I buy? Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 16:56:19 +0100 Message-ID: <001701bf9672$af3864d0$4000a8c0@pcmarmob> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 In-reply-to: <20000324182813.K25438@jade.chc-chimes.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bill Fumerola > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 12:28 AM > To: Louis A. Mamakos > Cc: Vincent Poy; Jonathan Towne; freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? > > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 06:25:18PM -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > > 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. > At the risk of going off at something of a tangent: being the not so proud owner of an aging, but still very serviceable Nec clone, weighing in at way too many pounds, I ditched the carry case in favour of a Microsoft Technet rucksack which has a certain amount of padding (unsurprisingly) but is nonetheless reasonably portable and has lots of little pockets for the other bits and pieces. This combo has accompanied me all over Europe and on a couple of transatlantic trips and my arms have now returned to their pre laptop size. Good job Bill. Still want a new laptop though. Well done Bill. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message