Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:44:04 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Andrew Johns <ajohns@TurnAround.com.au> Cc: mestery@visi.com, Dann Lunsford <dann@greycat.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended laptops for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990628104403.G15144@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <000701bec0fe$2b953ee0$4001a8c0@tasajohns.turnaround.com.au>; from Andrew Johns on Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 10:35:49AM %2B1000 References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9906271927040.14384-100000@isis.visi.com> <000701bec0fe$2b953ee0$4001a8c0@tasajohns.turnaround.com.au>
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[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Monday, 28 June 1999 at 10:35:49 +1000, Andrew Johns wrote: > [snip] >> On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Dann Lunsford wrote: >> >>> Hi! I need some advice (or at least some information :-)) about >>> buying a laptop. What brands/models support FreeBSD best, etc.? >>> For instance, today I saw a ThinkPad 1472 (pretty sure that was >>> the model) with 14" screen, 6.4G drive, DVD/CD, 64Meg, etc; looked >>> real nice, just what I need for the trips I'll be making, if it >>> only runs FreeBSD. Will it? I have an old ThinkPad 750C running >>> FreeBSD now, which is why I'm looking at the 1472, but I'd really >>> like to have peoples' opinions. >> >> Along these lines, does anyone have any experience with the Dell >> Inspiron 3500? Dell has a real nice deal now (14.1 inch display, >> 64MB RAM, 4.2GB drive, CD-ROM) for ~$2,000. Has anyone used one of >> these with FreeBSD before? I know firsthand the Dell's are nice >> machines, as my father has one. But I don't know if anyone's used >> the Inspiron's with FreeBSD. > > None with the 3500, but the 7000's are pretty awesome - only prob we had > was getting X running on the ATI Rage Pro LT - it was the LT that wasn't > supported last time we looked. Other than that it absolutely flew - > eg:sub 2 and a half minutes for a kernel compile (mind you we had 192 MB > RAM in that machine :)) but that was before we added softupdates... All current Dell laptops use the NeoMagic chipset, which used to be a problem because NeoMagic didn't release programming documentation. They've done so now, however, and the latest version of XFree86 includes a driver which works pretty well on my Latitude CPi. I'm told that the Inspiron series works pretty well with FreeBSD, too. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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