Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:38:05 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Graham North <northg@shaw.ca> Subject: Re: Laptop choices Message-ID: <200511231238.06590.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4383C20E.20509@shaw.ca> References: <4383C20E.20509@shaw.ca>
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--nextPart1911160.Z6cXxilX05 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:42, Graham North wrote: > Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck > winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP. > > Dell Latitude d600 with Radeon 9000? video, intel pro wireless > or > IBM R51 - Intel Extreme2, intel pro wireless. > The main differences will likely be the video and maybe bios, acpi...? > Can someone suggest to me whether these are both safe choices? I'd say the Dell's video is more likely to work (even 3d). > Am I better off installing 5.4 or 6.0? I'd try 6.0 myself. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1911160.Z6cXxilX05 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDg88G5ZPcIHs/zowRAvQzAKClpUprSoOSlrZ+M1SlsOhPqxZ9rwCcCJno IKRuk0BUCd4JbYOIt6qdfRU= =mP9e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1911160.Z6cXxilX05--
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