From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 3 17:34:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA23157 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:34:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.earthlink.net (1Cust117.max33.boston.ma.ms.uu.net [153.35.85.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA23148 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:34:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mjpell@localhost) by localhost.earthlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA26339; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 20:47:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.0 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 20:46:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael John Pelletier To: Doug White Subject: Re: Please read; I thinking about buying a laptop... Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug White Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. I will look at the Digital stuff now... Once again, thanks On 03-Oct-97 Doug White wrote: >On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Michael John Pelletier wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I need some serious insight. I am thinking >> about buying a laptop and I want to have dual O.S. >> (probably win95 (yuck) and FreeBSD. Could anyone >> tell me if there are any problems with laptop support. >> I am very close to buying the Micron XKE or XPE. >> >> Please help, I need to buy this quickly, for >> my job. I don't want to get stuck with a laptop >> which I can not use UNIX on.... > >The Digital HiNote series is a proven FreeBSD runner (at least some of the >older models). They recently became available by mail order from PC >Connection; I'm probing my local DEC dealer to see if they can beat the >price. The PAO group has one floating around in their midst, so it should >work. > >The top end unit, the HiNote VP 575, with a P166MMX, 16MB RAM, 2.1GB hard >drive, TFT, and CD/floppy unit, is about $3400. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Michael John Pelletier Date: 03-Oct-97 Time: 20:46:38 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------