From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 22:32:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw02.execpc.com (mailgw02.execpc.com [169.207.3.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B7A437B6B1 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:32:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Received: from woodstock.monkey.net (d65.as14.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.134.65]) by mailgw02.execpc.com (8.9.1) id AAA02828; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:32:50 -0500 Received: from pobox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodstock.monkey.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A564916F; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:33:38 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/16/1999 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Dale Wharton , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: cheapest laptop for FreeBSD? winmodems? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:29:09 +0930." <20000803142909.L87263@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 00:33:38 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton Message-Id: <20000803053338.A564916F@woodstock.monkey.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG } > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message