Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 00:26:52 -0400 From: "Greg Smith" <freebsd_mail@yahoo.com> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Used Laptop Message-ID: <200108030026520060.0018414A@smtp.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3B69547B.D2EB8163@mitre.org> References: <8019841954.20010801213213@gmx.net> <3B69547B.D2EB8163@mitre.org>
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Trackpoints are my favorite, but it should be noted that some laptop manufacturers who include both trackpoints and touchpads put the "mouse" buttons in a position which is nice for the touchpad but a painful stretch for the trackpoint, reducing the advantage of keeping your hands on the keyboard. Greg -----Original Message----- >oli wrote: >> >> Hello mobile, >> >> I'm successfully riding my Toshiba 420CDS on 4.3 but it still lacks >> performance (X-Browser is slooooow, harddisk is small). >> >> About buying some used, faster machine there are some questions left. >> >> Toshiba and IBM are the only manufacurers building trackpoints into >> their laptops (AFAIK). Anything else is not for me, because i hate >> touchpads. > >If by trackpoint you mean that little nub between the G and H keys, my >Dell Latitude has one, in fact all of the modern Dells seem to have it. >They also have a touchpad that can be disabled under Windows (I've never >tried though, because I love it), I don't know if FreeBSD (or XFree) >supports disabling the touchpad though. > >-- > \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org > |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer >_| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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