Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:40:58 -0400 From: Timothy Luoma <freebsd@tntluoma.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Dell i7500 or Toshiba 1005-S157? Message-ID: <oprvtqukwinva4ua@smtpx.operamail.com>
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We have two laptops. Currently both have WinXP on them, and I'm trying to decide which I'll put FreeBSD on. One is a Dell Inspiron 7500 and the other is a Toshiba 1005-S157. I know that folks have gotten FreeBSD to work on the Dell, but I have not found much about FreeBSD and the Toshiba 1005-S157. The Dell has been my regular laptop, and I really like it. The Toshiba is my wife's and she's no longer using it. I don't like it as much. I've installed FreeBSD a few times but never enough to actually use it. I figure the best way to do it is to take one of the machines and dedicate it to FreeBSD, and I can use the other one for my daily stuff until I have it working well enough for me to use it as my daily machine. Make sense? So the question is, which should I switch to FreeBSD? They both have 256mb ram. The Toshiba runs 1024x768, the Dell 1400x1050 The Dell has 30gb hard drive (C:\ is 12gb and D:\ is 16gb), the Toshiba has a 15gb The Toshiba is a Celeron 1.06ghz, the Dell is a 650Mhz I'm thinking about just taking over the Toshiba as my daily machine, and putting FreeBSD on D:\ on the Dell and start using that to learn/setup FreeBSD. That way if I hose the Dell I can still get my daily work done. But then I'm thinking that I can devote the entire Toshiba to FreeBSD, and it has the faster processor. I assume I'll be running WINE for a few Windows apps, and when I need to update/compile faster = better, right? So I thought I'd ask you folks for your thoughts. TjL
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