From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Nov 7 7: 7:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BEDB37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:07:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from clever.eusc.inter.net (clever.eusc.inter.net [213.73.101.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98F6843E3B for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:07:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from plexus@snafu.de) Received: from cerberus.publity.de ([213.61.128.135] helo=snafu.de) by clever.eusc.inter.net with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #4) id 189oG2-0000yC-00; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:07:46 +0100 Message-ID: <3DCA81BD.90803@snafu.de> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:07:41 +0100 From: "Fischer, Oliver" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021101 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mvh@welkyn.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop short list - and the winner is! References: <1036608697.93700.26.camel@netcom1.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <1036608697.93700.26.camel@netcom1.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org One of my friends has got a Dell one year ago (~5000 Euro) and if I compare the quality of my 3 years old T20 and his one year old Dell, IBM wins! Bye Oliver Mike Harding wrote: > It looks like I'll get a IBM thinkpad T30. I thank the list for the > input! There were a few things that pushed it towards the T30... > > - It's supposed to be physically robust, for lots of travel. I have > heard things about Dells, etc. have problems with the hinges. > - It's has a serial port, which I occasionally need to bootstrap systems > (even my desktop FreeBSD box when X locks up) I would otherwise > probably get an X series. > - I need to do windows stuff to support some security work. Honestly, > the new Macs seem much nicer, even for the same money, and draw less > power - if I didn't specifically have to support windows apps I would > get the Mac. > - I do some sales work with IBM, so the politics are better. > > Thanks again, > > Mike H. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- Oliver Fischer - plexus[AT]snafu[DOT]de [de] Das Internet stammt aus dem letzten Jahrtausend! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message