From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Nov 10 11:52:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F8437B4C5 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:52:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp241.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eAAJq8H78706; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:52:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001110131753.A62744@blackhelicopters.org> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:52:45 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Michael Lucas Subject: RE: laptop recommendations Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 10-Nov-00 Michael Lucas wrote: > I'm shocked. My new boss has approved about $3k for a UNIX laptop for > me. I've never spent that much money on a personal PC in my life. > > So, any recommendations? I need the ability to use 256meg of RAM and > X-windows. Depends on what you want. If you want something real light and portable, the various VAIO's I have seen are nice. If you want a big honkin' screen like I do, then I recommend the Dell Inspiron 5000e with the 1600x1200 screen. If you don't get the DVD ROM drive and you get the 5 gig hard drive with 128 MB of ram I believe it is about ~$2800 US. That gives you some room to play with to get 256 MB of ram at least, and if you can put in a little of your own you can get a nicer-sized hard drive, etc. The sound works fine in both -stable and -current. X works, but you can't use 4.0.1 on it, you have to cvsup the X sources and use an X-current server. :-P I haven't tried X 3.3.6, though it seems to have a ATI rage 128 driver, so it might work as well. One known problem is that apm support won't work under FreeBSD because of a bug in the BIOS. :-( pccard and USB work fine though. The real win is the screen though. :) > Thanks, > Michael -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message