From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue May 8 17:28:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 673E137B423 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 17:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 7618C6ACC1; Wed, 9 May 2001 09:58:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 09:58:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Geoffrey T. Cheshire" Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My perfect laptop! Message-ID: <20010509095847.M68969@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010509092640.I68969@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from gtc@cheshirelaw.com on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 05:11:59PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 8 May 2001 at 17:11:59 -0700, Geoffrey T. Cheshire wrote: > The Fn key is a bit of a bummer--especially with the flipping WinKey next to > it (which I don't even use in Windows!), but in my experience all laptops > have some funky key placement that takes a bit of time to get used to > (especially with all the emacs key sequences :) Agreed. But if you have an alternative, this speaks against the ThinkPad. The Dell Inspiron series also have most of the other features, and they have a Ctrl key in the bottom left corner, so I can remap it to Alt. > I have to defend the eraser pointer. After using IBM and Toshiba > laptops for years now, I cannot stand touchpads. They are extremely > imprecise in comparison, and make dragging the pointer to highlight > text very difficult. Also, I find that having the pointer in the > middle of the keyboard is great--no need to move your hands away > from the typing position to mouse. Hmm. Certainly I'd give it a try. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message