From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 01:15:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF3516A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:15:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D929743D45 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:15:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com ([192.168.42.25]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iB21FGXe057726; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:15:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <41AE6C31.7000107@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:13:21 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Wolfskill References: <200412020105.iB215hia004502@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <200412020105.iB215hia004502@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/585/Thu Nov 11 06:22:42 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Susceptibility of Dell 8200 to thermal stress/fatigue? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 01:15:41 -0000 David Wolfskill wrote: [..snip..] >>From ads on craigslist and eBay, it looks to me as if a Dell 8200 with a >UXGA (1600x1200) screen ought to work out reasonably well -- better than >the laptops in Dell's current catalogue, in that of the latter, only one >has an integrated "standard" (for PCs) serial port. (As a sysadmin, I >sometimes need to connect to random devices that only talk serial.) >[Yes, I could get a USB<->DB9 dongle; that's one more thing to lose or >break, as well as pay for.] I don't really care about a disk drive, as >my old disk drive still works (I'm using it in the loaner laptop as I >type). > >Now, it looks as if the Dell Latitude C840 is fairly similar to the >Inspiron 8200. As far as running FreEBSD on the machine, are there any >salient differences? > >And does anyone have any ideas as to how susceptible either is to >thermal stress? > >This comes into play because I keep a local copy of the FreeBSD CVS >repository on my laptop, updated daily, and have been tracking RELENG_4 >as often as the corresponding working directory changed (usually, >daily). I had been tracking HEAD (on another slice) until RELENG_5 was >branched, and I then tracked RELENG_5. (I do have a slice for HEAD, but >2 buildworlds in a day was eating into my time a bit much; 3 just >wouldn't be feasible. I'll probably resume tracking HEAD once I migrate >my production machines at home to 5.x.) > For what it's worth, I have a Dell D600, and I do much of the same that you do on your laptop on mine - I've been using it hard for a year, with no ill effects.. Eric