From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 20:47:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA1637BFC9 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:47:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA30436; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:17:37 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:17:37 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dale Wharton Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: cheapest laptop for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20000802131737.H36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from dwharton@alcor.concordia.ca on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:28:01PM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [following up on FreeBSD-questions] On Tuesday, 1 August 2000 at 22:28:01 -0400, Dale Wharton wrote: > I bought the 3rd edition of THE COMPLETE FREEBSD by Greg Lehey, ... which suggests (on page 15) that you'll get help from FreeBSD-questions. It's right :-) > it includes discs labeled March 2000. Now I need a computer (it > must be portable) to run it on. > > The cheapest new laptop I can find hereabouts is the Compaq Presario > 1200-XL115, whose (475 MHz) processor is the AMD-K6-2 --not > mentioned in the book. Is it a suitable platform? If not, what is > the cheapest portable that does support FreeBSD? Compaq doesn't have the best reputation for compatibility. In general, you'll find people prefer Dell. I don't know of any problems with this machine myself, but others may. The K6 isn't a problem, but with laptops, typically display and sound hardware are sore points. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message