From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 6 17:38:32 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 ABFA437B491 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:38:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f171dgP33223; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:39:42 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:39:41 +1100 From: Greg Lehey To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Jerry Dunham Subject: Re: laptops - perhaps DELL Message-ID: <20010207123941.D33063@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <200102060903.f1693HE17973@ns1.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200102060903.f1693HE17973@ns1.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:22:09PM +1300 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 22:22:09 +1300, Dan Langille wrote: > 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? I'm copying Jerry Dunham, who lurks on some of the mailing lists. He used to be in charge of engineering maintenance for Dell laptops, and may have some input. 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