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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:02:20 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Paul Dlug <paul@nerdlabs.com>
Cc:        Damien Tougas <damien@tougas.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Looking for laptop opinions/experiences
Message-ID:  <4.2.2.20000310090121.00a9ca10@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <38C8A2B2.669B224C@nerdlabs.com>
References:  <20000309234436.A16923@tougas.net> <4.2.2.20000310002653.04504a00@localhost>

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As I understand it, Dell uses the ESS Maestro, for which sound support
is beta quality at best even if you buy the OSS driver. Since I do
a lot of RealAudio, I need sound to work.

--Brett

At 12:22 AM 3/10/2000 , Paul Dlug wrote:
   
>To be honest with you I never bothered to try it, sound has always been
>low on my priority list :-)
>
>Brett Glass wrote:
> > 
> > What about sound?
> > 
> > --Brett
> > 
> > At 12:01 AM 3/10/2000 , Paul Dlug wrote:
> > 
> > >I have a Sony VAIO F350 I bought in december. Compatbility wise it's
> > >been pretty good, I have 3.3 on it with PAO
> > >(http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/) which supports my Linksys PCMCIA NIC
> > >quite well. The neomagic chipset on it is supported by xfree and works
> > >just fine at 1024x768. I would reccommend this laptop highly if the hard
> > >drive hadn't failed two days ago :-) Other than that 'minor' detail I
> > >would say I'm completely satisfied with it.



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