From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jul 10 0:18:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B946B151AB; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 00:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA26052; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:48:04 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id QAA21781; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:48:03 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:48:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com Cc: mestery@visi.com, Dann Lunsford , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended laptops for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990710164803.B21685@freebie.lemis.com> References: <3776BE9B.E0F19030@greycat.com> <19990627183324.A38269@ontario.mooseriver.com> <19990628111808.L15144@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990628111808.L15144@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 11:18:08AM +0930 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 28 June 1999 at 11:18:08 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 18:33:24 -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: >> I have a Dell Latitude CPi D266XT. A Pentium II/Celeron 266. 64 meg of ram >> and 4.3 gig hard disk. It has 2 PCMCIA slots, a 14.1" display, and two >> "bays" in the front. The bay on the left is for the battery. The bay on the >> right can hold a floppy drive, a CD-ROM drive, or an additional battery. >> With both batteries installed the laptop can run for 7 hours without being >> plugged in. The laptop comes with both the floppy and CD-ROM drive. The >> floppy can be run off the parallel port. > > One thing to note is that the two batteries are not the same; the bays > have different shapes. I have two batteries for my Latitude, but > they're both left batteries. It's been brought to my attention that the batteries on the Latitude C series fit on either side. The floppy and CD-ROM drives only fit on the right, however. 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