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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: notebook: which one
In-Reply-To: <199612131252.NAA04767@gvr.win.tue.nl> from Guido van Rooij at "Dec 13, 96 01:52:53 pm"
To: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 01:11:23 +1100 (EST)
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Guido van Rooij writes:

> I am looking for a notebook that is well supported under FreeBSD. It
> should have 16 mb and a decent screen and have either a 0.5 or 1.0
> gigabyte fixed disk. I am particularly interested in which brand is the
> best to choose.

I'm writing this from my ThinkPad 560 running -current. Works really well
even without a L2 cache .. and at less than 2kg it's no great problem to
cart around. Nearly 3hrs battery life (Lithium) in normal, text-mode, non
disk-intensive use.

Only one sticking point .. X on the DSTN model is (still) not working at
better than 640x480 where others have managed to get it to fly at 800x600 on
the TFT (active) models.

I've used a 3C589b (with a small tweak to the ep driver) and a D-Link DE-650
(no tweaking required) with it.

In contrast, I had all sorts of bother trying to get an AST J-10 to run at
all with -current back in June .. I gave it back after a week of arguing
with the PCIC stuff over some non-standard port problem (it didn't appear to
use 0x3e0 :-(),

	michael