Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:35:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Andrew Johns <ajohns@TurnAround.com.au> Cc: mestery@visi.com, Dann Lunsford <dann@greycat.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended laptops for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990710163520.A21685@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990628104403.G15144@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 10:44:04AM %2B0930 References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9906271927040.14384-100000@isis.visi.com> <000701bec0fe$2b953ee0$4001a8c0@tasajohns.turnaround.com.au> <19990628104403.G15144@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Monday, 28 June 1999 at 10:44:04 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > On Monday, 28 June 1999 at 10:35:49 +1000, Andrew Johns wrote: >> [snip] >>> On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Dann Lunsford wrote: >>> >>>> Hi! I need some advice (or at least some information :-)) about >>>> buying a laptop. What brands/models support FreeBSD best, etc.? >>>> For instance, today I saw a ThinkPad 1472 (pretty sure that was >>>> the model) with 14" screen, 6.4G drive, DVD/CD, 64Meg, etc; looked >>>> real nice, just what I need for the trips I'll be making, if it >>>> only runs FreeBSD. Will it? I have an old ThinkPad 750C running >>>> FreeBSD now, which is why I'm looking at the 1472, but I'd really >>>> like to have peoples' opinions. >>> >>> Along these lines, does anyone have any experience with the Dell >>> Inspiron 3500? Dell has a real nice deal now (14.1 inch display, >>> 64MB RAM, 4.2GB drive, CD-ROM) for ~$2,000. Has anyone used one of >>> these with FreeBSD before? I know firsthand the Dell's are nice >>> machines, as my father has one. But I don't know if anyone's used >>> the Inspiron's with FreeBSD. >> >> None with the 3500, but the 7000's are pretty awesome - only prob we had >> was getting X running on the ATI Rage Pro LT - it was the LT that wasn't >> supported last time we looked. Other than that it absolutely flew - >> eg:sub 2 and a half minutes for a kernel compile (mind you we had 192 MB >> RAM in that machine :)) but that was before we added softupdates... > > All current Dell laptops use the NeoMagic chipset, which used to be a > problem because NeoMagic didn't release programming documentation. > They've done so now, however, and the latest version of XFree86 > includes a driver which works pretty well on my Latitude CPi. I'm > told that the Inspiron series works pretty well with FreeBSD, too. I've just heard that this last statement is incorrect. The Inspiron 7000 has always used the ATI Rage Pro chipset. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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