Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 08:26:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Inouye <jinouye@cse.ogi.edu> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High-resolution displays Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.970907080429.3207A-100000@indurain.cse.ogi.edu> In-Reply-To: <199709052037.OAA10275@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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The Toshiba Satellite Pros (420/430) have built in power supplies so
you only need the external power cord. We have several around OGI
running Linux + XFree86 3.2 in 800x600 mode internally and externally.
I doubt the CD-ROM is the most vulnerable component of the laptop.
I have seen more IDE drives, displays, and mobile modules (motherboards)
go bad and have yet to see a problem with CD-ROMs.
As for the usefulness of a CD-ROM, I have a Toshiba 4900CT and an
IBM 560E, and neither of them has a CD-ROM. (My metric is the lowest
pound per display area ratio. :-) I install most things over the network
and bought a Panasonic 2X external PCMCIA CD-ROM at Fry's for $99 to
facilitate Windows OEM SR2 installs (where you have to wipe the disk
clean before installing the OS).
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On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > *All* of the laptops I've ever used (NEC, IBM, Toshiba, Fujitsu, HP)
> > > have external power supplies.
> >
> > The Toshibas at one of my clients have built in power supplies and
> > take a line cord on the back. I don't know the model, but they
> > have both older 486 systems and some newer Pentium systems.
>
> That's different than my experience.
>
> > I'm more willing to trade off weight for having everything well
> > packaged in one place than the market.
>
> To each his own. I spend enough time on the road *NOT* using the
> externals that having a light-weight laptop is a much bigger deal than
> having one with everything built-in. It's the 'unix' geek in me I
> guess. "Small is beautiful". ;) ;) ;)
>
>
> Nate
>
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