Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 09:33:24 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations in France / Europe? Message-ID: <p05100306b72145562753@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <20010511091932.A89124@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010509133826.I82438@lpt.ens.fr> <p05100326b71f2d99792e@[194.78.241.123]> <20010510160433.A52244@lpt.ens.fr> <p0510030bb7206bcc0e72@[194.78.241.123]> <20010511091932.A89124@lpt.ens.fr>
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At 9:19 AM +0200 5/11/01, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> I am in Paris. I need a visa, in advance. That's not true for EU
> citizens, I believe. It wouldn't be a problem getting a visa,
> probably, but when you factor in the cost of the eurostar (if you're
> in Paris, taking a plane is probably cheaper...)
I'm not sure who needs what visas in advance to go to what
countries. Obviously, this depends on what country/ies you are a
citizen of, etc.... A US citizen does not need a visa in advance to
go to any European country I know of -- your passport is effectively
an automatic six month tourist visa.
Now, if you want to go there and stay longer than that, you might
have a problem. But I don't think that this would be the case if you
just wanted to buy a laptop.
> I'll find out in a day or two... I did go to Surcouf yesterday (as DES
> suggested), and they did have an Acer model which they assured me was
> 100% linux-compatible (they'd never heard of FreeBSD) but I didn't
> think of asking about a qwerty keyboard.
If you want to come up to Brussels and look around, let me know.
I do not personally know where all the big computer stores are, but
I've got some former co-workers that I think would still talk to me,
and they should know where they are.
They should also have an idea of what laptops work with Linux
(and presumably would work with FreeBSD), since they have laptops at
work with Linux on them.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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