From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 6 17:35:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (asbestos.linuxcare.com.au [203.17.0.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DBD237B4EC for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:35:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f171aWs33177; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:36:32 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:36:32 +1100 From: Greg Lehey To: "Michael C . Wu" Cc: Dan Langille , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptops - perhaps DELL Message-ID: <20010207123632.B33063@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <200102060903.f1693HE17973@ns1.unixathome.org> <20010206081526.E98288@peorth.iteration.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20010206081526.E98288@peorth.iteration.net>; from keichii@iteration.net on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 08:15:26AM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 6 February 2001 at 8:15:26 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:22:09PM +1300, Dan Langille scribbled: >> I lusted over Murray Stokely's laptop at BSDCon 2000. He loaned it to >> me so I could convert my FreshPorts presentation from PowerPoint to, >> ummm, whatever it was that came with Star Office. It was a fine looking >> screen and seemed quite solid. Murray just pointed me at: >> >> >> >> where the $2049 price tag for a 700MHz processor, 128MB ram, 10GB >> disk and a 15" screen looks pretty good to me. I don't think I'll need >> that MS Works bundle, so I'm sure I'll get a hefty discount (not) if they >> take that off. Do they preinstall? Actually, I'd be inclined to install >> myself.... There's something about knowing exactly what's on the box >> that gives me a better feeling. >> >> Any opinions? Any contacts at DELL? > > The following is seemingly the consensus of -mobile: > Pick between the following with 1 or 2 preferred - > ... > > 4. IBM X20 and A20 Note that some BIOS revisions on these models don't work AT ALL with FreeBSD. In fact, the mere presence of a FreeBSD partition causes them to go catatonic. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message