From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 17:41:06 2003 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 D6EBC16A4B3 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:41:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fs5-4.us4.outblaze.com (205-158-62-136.outblaze.com [205.158.62.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D116343FB1 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:41:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luomat@operamail.com) Received: (qmail 29766 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2003 00:38:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Tim) (luomat:operamail.com?operamail.com@199.35.222.150) by 205-158-62-136.outblaze.com with SMTP; 21 Sep 2003 00:38:19 -0000 Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:40:58 -0400 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: Timothy Luoma Organization: http://tntluoma.com Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 3139 Subject: Dell i7500 or Toshiba 1005-S157? 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: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:41:07 -0000 We have two laptops. Currently both have WinXP on them, and I'm trying to decide which I'll put FreeBSD on. One is a Dell Inspiron 7500 and the other is a Toshiba 1005-S157. I know that folks have gotten FreeBSD to work on the Dell, but I have not found much about FreeBSD and the Toshiba 1005-S157. The Dell has been my regular laptop, and I really like it. The Toshiba is my wife's and she's no longer using it. I don't like it as much. I've installed FreeBSD a few times but never enough to actually use it. I figure the best way to do it is to take one of the machines and dedicate it to FreeBSD, and I can use the other one for my daily stuff until I have it working well enough for me to use it as my daily machine. Make sense? So the question is, which should I switch to FreeBSD? They both have 256mb ram. The Toshiba runs 1024x768, the Dell 1400x1050 The Dell has 30gb hard drive (C:\ is 12gb and D:\ is 16gb), the Toshiba has a 15gb The Toshiba is a Celeron 1.06ghz, the Dell is a 650Mhz I'm thinking about just taking over the Toshiba as my daily machine, and putting FreeBSD on D:\ on the Dell and start using that to learn/setup FreeBSD. That way if I hose the Dell I can still get my daily work done. But then I'm thinking that I can devote the entire Toshiba to FreeBSD, and it has the faster processor. I assume I'll be running WINE for a few Windows apps, and when I need to update/compile faster = better, right? So I thought I'd ask you folks for your thoughts. TjL