Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 20:31:39 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Edwin Culp <eculp@EnContacto.Net> Cc: freebsd-mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Recommendations for a laptop Message-ID: <200101290231.f0T2VdG29688@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Edwin Culp <eculp@EnContacto.Net> of "Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:38:56 PST." <980728736.3a74bba00c328@Mail.MexComUSA.net>
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Edwin Culp writes: > Quoting David Kelly <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org>: > > > Kailesh Mussai writes: > > > Hello to all, > > > I am interested in buying a laptop,so tht I can freeBSd on it but I > > > am having a bit of difficulty in choosing one.Could anyone help me on > > this. > > > > Gave a lot of consideration to that very question myself earlier this > > month. So now I'm waiting on delivery of an Apple Powerbook G4, which I > > expect to run MacOS X on. > > > > With MacOS X I expect to have all the advantages of FreeBSD plus all > > the advantages of a major commercial consumer OS. At least that is the > > hope. > David, > > I would be very interested in hearing your comments. I had the same dream and I > tried the beta, but it wasn't what I had hoped for. Many Apple programs and > drivers wouldn't work then, but should in March when it is officially released. > > I would really like to know if you are happy with it and which lists you find > that have information on ported open source applications, etc. I played around with MacOS X PB on a G4 tower for about 30 minutes and was not disappointed. But also knew I had not gone far enough with it to know what it will really be like to live with. The one thing that tripped me was when I wanted multiple instances of the Terminal. Didn't figure that one out as the Mac Thing To Do on double-click is to present the one that is already open. But that was not what I wanted as I wanted a second. Ship date on my Titanium Powerbook G4 is said to be Feb 5. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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