From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jan 28 18:32:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-56-129.knology.net [24.214.56.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F4937B402 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 18:31:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0T2VdG29688; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:31:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200101290231.f0T2VdG29688@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Edwin Culp Cc: freebsd-mobile From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Recommendations for a laptop In-reply-to: Message from Edwin Culp of "Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:38:56 PST." <980728736.3a74bba00c328@Mail.MexComUSA.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:31:39 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Edwin Culp writes: > Quoting David Kelly : > > > Kailesh Mussai writes: > > > Hello to all, > > > I am interested in buying a laptop,so tht I can freeBSd on it but I > > > am having a bit of difficulty in choosing one.Could anyone help me on > > this. > > > > Gave a lot of consideration to that very question myself earlier this > > month. So now I'm waiting on delivery of an Apple Powerbook G4, which I > > expect to run MacOS X on. > > > > With MacOS X I expect to have all the advantages of FreeBSD plus all > > the advantages of a major commercial consumer OS. At least that is the > > hope. > David, > > I would be very interested in hearing your comments. I had the same dream and I > tried the beta, but it wasn't what I had hoped for. Many Apple programs and > drivers wouldn't work then, but should in March when it is officially released. > > I would really like to know if you are happy with it and which lists you find > that have information on ported open source applications, etc. I played around with MacOS X PB on a G4 tower for about 30 minutes and was not disappointed. But also knew I had not gone far enough with it to know what it will really be like to live with. The one thing that tripped me was when I wanted multiple instances of the Terminal. Didn't figure that one out as the Mac Thing To Do on double-click is to present the one that is already open. But that was not what I wanted as I wanted a second. Ship date on my Titanium Powerbook G4 is said to be Feb 5. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message