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Date:      Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:33:38 -0500
From:      Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Dale Wharton <dwharton@alcor.concordia.ca>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cheapest laptop for FreeBSD? winmodems? 
Message-ID:  <20000803053338.A564916F@woodstock.monkey.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:29:09 %2B0930." <20000803142909.L87263@wantadilla.lemis.com> 

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} > The problem in this case is that the laptop in question can only use one
} > PCMCIA card at a time, so you'd have to choose between a modem or an ethern
} et
} > interface :(
} 
} I think this would be a "drop dead" criterion for me.  You need two
} slots.

Well, be careful what you wish for: it _has_ two slots, but only one is
usable at a time according to my reading of their point-of-sale propaganda 
(one is type III and one is type II).

I looked briefly at the Compaq website to see if I could confirm this,
but it just made my head hurt the same way it did last time I tried to find
anything useful there.  For my particular usage model, this limitation is
(obviously) ok, but I understand that it makes things much less attractive
to most people.  

-- 
   Jon Hamilton  
   hamilton@pobox.com



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