Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 10:36:22 -0400 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which laptop? Any comment on the vaios? Message-ID: <19990812103622.A4343@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <19990812102308.C27376@mordor.xti.org>; from Terje Elde on Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:23:08AM %2B0200 References: <19990812102308.C27376@mordor.xti.org>
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On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:23:08AM +0200, Terje Elde wrote: > I want a small powerfull one. Portablilty is very important, but so is the > keyboard, as I'll be doing a lot of typing. > > Anyone have anythign to recommend? > > Also, sony vaio users on the list who can comment on their experiences? > I'm thinking about getting a 505 or something like that. Here's another beyond-satisfied 505 user. I bought the TX. Now the TR is out, which is identical except that it comes with the 7-hour battery and costs $200 less. As has been said, everything works. And I'm not running PAO.. it all works under -current. (Except for the firewire, but I don't particularly care) I can even hotsync my pilot with the IR port. Installation was done by booting the floppy with the supplied external floppy drive, and installing over a network with a (non-supplied) 3c589. I now have a Linksys, which is considerably less expensive and works just fine. One note.. there are new "Z505" models out which have a bigger screen, lower battery life, builtin ethernet, etc. Apparently they have gone to using winmodems in them. The regular 505 line has a NON-winmodem, which works just fine with FreeBSD. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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