Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:36:50 -0500 From: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> To: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> Cc: Jonathan Towne <wrongway@slic.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? Message-ID: <20000324173650.E21424@numachi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003241201160.45830-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>; from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:06:35PM -1000 References: <20000324215533.A13214@minix.cx> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003241201160.45830-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:06:35PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jonathan Towne wrote: > The model I'm referring to is the SONY VAIO C1 (PCG-C1XS) > PictureBook Computer. It's a Intel PII 400. 8.9" XGA (1024x480) Bright > Screen, 64MB RAM (Expandable to 128MB), and 12 GIG HD. It is about > 1" thin, 2.2lbs in weight. It has the pointing stick and a Sony > programmable jog dial control. Built in ccd camera with one button movie > and still image capture. Built in v.90 56k modem. Hi-cap LiIon battery, > Magesium-alloy case. iEEE 1394 interface. 1 Type II PC Card slot with > CardBus support, 1 USB port, built in stero speakers. and USB Floppy > drive. It does cost $2300. > > For more info: > > http://vaiodirect.sel.sony.com/cgi-bin/catalog/catalog.cgi?FNC=DisplaySubcategories__Acategory_html___C1&sp;PictureBook&sp;Computer A shorter URL: <http://www.ita.sel.sony.com/products/pc/notebook/pcgc1xs.html>; I successfully got 3.2-RELEASE on this box's predecessor (a PI 266 MMX box). Really cute. Cool sound, too. Looks like a big Walkman. :) Gotchas: - the supplied USB-based floopy drive can be booted from, but FreeBSD knows jack about it. Last I heard (circa this past summer) was that said floppy was 'next on the list' of targets by some fanatic group in Japan (hi, guys!). - this beast has no serial ports. It does have a modem, an IR port, etc, but no good, old-fasioned DB9 or miniDIN or anything. Presumably, a PCMCIA card would do, but I like having a network. :/ Is there such a thing as a USB serial port? > Cheers, > Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ > Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] > WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] > San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] > HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] > Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert reichert@numachi.com 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (781) 899-7484 x704 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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