From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 23 19:19:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B16916A41F for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:19:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@chillt.de) Received: from dd2718.kasserver.com (dd2718.kasserver.com [81.209.184.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5D943D4C for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:19:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@chillt.de) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dslb-084-060-104-037.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.60.104.37]) by dd2718.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFDDC6098E; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:18:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4384C0AB.103@chillt.de> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:19:07 +0100 From: Bartosz Fabianowski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051106) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <4383C20E.20509@shaw.ca> <200511231238.06590.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20051123105730.GA29369@laverenz.de> <20051123185909.GA17696@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20051123185909.GA17696@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop choices X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:19:05 -0000 > Or, can the touch pads be disabled in the bios? I have a Dell Inspiron 8600C, which only has a touch pad. *But* its immediate predecessor, the 8600, had a track pad and one of those little pink joysticks (what are they called anyway?) and I know for a fact that the keyboard and wrist rest in the 8600C can be swapped for the 8600 model, which is often available cheaply on eBay. So, you could get a reasonably new 8600C (they were only replaced by the 6000 line a couple of months ago) and add the stick you like for a couple bucks. But I think that the touch pad will still be enabled - unless you cut a couple of wires, which shouldn't matter much because in case of a warranty return, you can swap back in the original keyboard and wrist rest, so nobody at Dell will see the cut wires :). Of course, this is not a Thinkpad clone, but it is a very good laptop nonetheless (especially the awesome 15.4" 1920x1200 screen). - Bartosz