Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 17:29:40 -0400 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycor@home.com> To: Munish Chopra <chopra@runbox.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Purchasing a new laptop...advice? Message-ID: <3B12C344.462F5164@home.com> References: <20010528204818.C12149@messiah.megadeb.org>
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Munish Chopra wrote: > > I am thinking about getting myself a laptop, as I need to be mobile and > online this summer. I'd be buying it within the next month, so I'd like > some advice. I need to be able to run FreeBSD on it (duh!), and I will > be buying it in Europe, after which I'll take it to North America (will > I be running into any power supply trouble? surely...), where I'm > actually moving. > > It should be a pretty decent machine, not super high-end but still > competitive. Preferrably decent battery life (how are Transmeta based > laptops doing?), sound, min. screen resolution 1024x768. DVD would be > nice, but won't kill me if I don't get it. Shouldn't cost too much > either, but I guess that's a general requirement :) I don't know if they ship to Europe, but if they do... PC Mall (pcmall.com) sent me a flyer advertising the now low-end IBM notebooks, where "low-end" is now the quite respectable 700MHz-800MHz speeds for $1450 - $1600. The $1600 one is 800MHz, 20GB drive, 64MB RAM, 14 inch (1024x768) screen, plus DVD! They also offer another 128MB for about $100. Of course they also offer "better" ones for more money, but that $1600 deal is rather tempting... :) If you're going to be using it in North America anyway, why not buy one built for North America? Just a suggestion... Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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