From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Mar 27 18:33:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0C037B853 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:33:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (root@mojave.lemis.com [192.109.197.162]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09413; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:02:50 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA00727; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:39:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:39:48 -0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Nate Williams Cc: Sean Eric Fagan , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? Message-ID: <20000324223948.B682@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <200003242059.NAA09850@nomad.yogotech.com> <200003242111.NAA01676.kithrup.freebsd.mobile@mass.cdrom.com> <200003242118.NAA27332@kithrup.com> <20000324133736.R1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <200003242220.PAA10561@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200003242220.PAA10561@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:20:13PM -0700 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-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 24 March 2000 at 15:20:13 -0700, Nate Williams wrote: >> I find that I increasingly use my laptop for maintaining continuity >> while traveling. For that purpose, I need as close an approximation >> to my home setup as possible. Unfortunately, nobody seems to sell a >> laptop with two 1600x1200 displays :-) > > You can do what I've done, and lower the bar at home and use your laptop > as your 'home setup' as well as your on-the-road setup. :) :) :) I could stop using X altogether and just use an 80x25 terminal. But I'm not going to. Recall that I have a Latitude CPi 233 MHz, which is a pretty good laptop. But if somebody comes to you and says "That laptop is too old and slow; let me buy you a better one", what would you say? 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-mobile" in the body of the message