Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 20:48:18 +0200 From: Munish Chopra <chopra@runbox.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Purchasing a new laptop...advice? Message-ID: <20010528204818.C12149@messiah.megadeb.org>
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I am thinking about getting myself a laptop, as I need to be mobile and online this summer. I'd be buying it within the next month, so I'd like some advice. I need to be able to run FreeBSD on it (duh!), and I will be buying it in Europe, after which I'll take it to North America (will I be running into any power supply trouble? surely...), where I'm actually moving. It should be a pretty decent machine, not super high-end but still competitive. Preferrably decent battery life (how are Transmeta based laptops doing?), sound, min. screen resolution 1024x768. DVD would be nice, but won't kill me if I don't get it. Shouldn't cost too much either, but I guess that's a general requirement :) I've been looking at http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html to get an idea, but I'm a bit stumped. I've been thinking Sony VAIO, but I'm pretty sure those things are on the expensive side. Also, I don't know much or anything about PCMCIA vs. CardBus (CardBus is 5.x only, right?), so if someone has any pointers there and to laptop know-how in general, I'd be grateful. Please cc me as I'm not on the list. Thanks. -- -Munish To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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