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Subject: Re: Recommended laptops for FreeBSD?
In-Reply-To: <19990628104403.G15144@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jun 28, 99 10:44:04 am"
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
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According to Greg Lehey:
> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]
> 
> On Monday, 28 June 1999 at 10:35:49 +1000, Andrew Johns wrote:
> > [snip]
> >> On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Dann Lunsford wrote:
> >>
> All current Dell laptops use the NeoMagic chipset, which used to be a
> problem because NeoMagic didn't release programming documentation.
> They've done so now, however, and the latest version of XFree86
> includes a driver which works pretty well on my Latitude CPi.  I'm
> told that the Inspiron series works pretty well with FreeBSD, too.
> 

	A friend who got a free Dell Latitude for work was wondering;
	this info should interest him.

	The PAO list is interesting--especially since my 3.2 CD's 
	just arrived--but the PAO information seems dated..  I've
	seen a `UMAX' l'top that would be just small enough (12.1")
	to be worth buying at around $1000US.  But I've seen 
	nothing about this or other off-brand laptops.

	Is there any way of telling whether any generic laptops would
	work with FBSD?

	thanks,

	gary




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