From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 6 18:23:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from femail9.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail9.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8694737B401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:23:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail9.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010207022339.CQAE20293.femail9.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:23:39 -0800 Message-ID: <3A80B1AA.6F7D45E3@home.com> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 18:23:39 -0800 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chip Cc: dan@langille.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: laptops - perhaps DELL References: <200102060903.f1693HE17973@ns1.unixathome.org> <3A800BF7.A1CE2A78@wiegand.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chip wrote: > > 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? > > > > -- > > Dan Langille > > pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org > > I have 3 Dell Inspiron8000's at work, they were brought > in for a particular Linux app. I have been unable to get > X installed on the I-8000. I have tried every monitor > choice on the list for Dell. We then bought a Acer 739 > and it works like a charm. The Dells are being returned > to Dell, we'll never buy those again for anything except > winblows. I did get X installed on an older Dell, I don't > recall the model right now, but it was probably about two > years old. > I have heard the Acer and IBM laptops are probably the > better choices for *nix running X. > > -- > Chip Wiegand > Alternative Operating Systems > www.wiegand.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message I have an Acer 602TER. FreeBSD and OpenBSD have worked very well on it. Suspend-resume works properly with 4.2-release. And the built in cdrw and ethernet is nice. All for $2500. Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message