Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:33:38 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Dale Wharton <dwharton@alcor.concordia.ca>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cheapest laptop for FreeBSD? winmodems? Message-ID: <20000803053338.A564916F@woodstock.monkey.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:29:09 %2B0930." <20000803142909.L87263@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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} > The problem in this case is that the laptop in question can only use one } > PCMCIA card at a time, so you'd have to choose between a modem or an ethern } et } > interface :( } } I think this would be a "drop dead" criterion for me. You need two } slots. Well, be careful what you wish for: it _has_ two slots, but only one is usable at a time according to my reading of their point-of-sale propaganda (one is type III and one is type II). I looked briefly at the Compaq website to see if I could confirm this, but it just made my head hurt the same way it did last time I tried to find anything useful there. For my particular usage model, this limitation is (obviously) ok, but I understand that it makes things much less attractive to most people. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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