Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:56:50 GMT From: Bryan Scattergood <bryan@fsel.com> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: roberto@eurocontrol.fr, bryan@fsel.com Subject: Re: VAIO 505F vs Toshiba 3015CT Message-ID: <199901111756.RAA25188@phobos.fsel.com> In-Reply-To: <19990111155013.O49737@caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr> (message from Ollivier Robert on Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:50:13 %2B0100)
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> I'm planning to buy either a Sony VAIO 505F or a Toshiba 3010/3015CT (or a > subnotebook with equivalent performances/size/weight, if you have > suggestions please do). We went looking for something similar just before Christmas. It was a rush job because someone suddenly decided to try and work during the holidays. We came down to the same two models (we also looked briefly at the corresponding Sharp subnote.) We ended up with the VAIO 505-FX/LT, mostly because we could get a slightly better price on that. (The LT and KT are the same unit, but the latter ships with the external CD and a modem.) > My questions are pretty basic: > > - do I need PAO or is CURRENT enough ? We installed from CD and tried both 2.2.7PAO and 3.0. We had better luck getting a PCMCIA network card working under the former, so we went with that. (3.0 could see a 3com589 using the zp driver for install, but that stopped when we tried enabling PCCARD support in the 3.0 kernel. We gave up and used 2.2.7.) > - does the hibernation feature work (saving mem on disk) ? The user reports no problems with either that or suspend to RAM. Some screen corruption, but I probably just need to tweak a PAO option for that. > - what are the pros/cons of each brand ? One difference is that the 301x uses an Accupoint while the VAIO has a trackpad. If you have strong feelings about those, that may decide the issue. Neither has a PS/2 port without plugging in the expansion bar. The VAIO's NeoMagic chipset caused some trouble with X; we were in a hurry and used AcceleratedX rather than hunting around for XFree86 patches. I'm planning to have another run at that now the 2.2.8 CDs have arrived. > - what are differences between the 3010 and 3015CT The local stores claim that the 3015 is US while the 3010 is a UK model (the 3015 I saw had a US keyboard, and had a built in modem which the 3010 lacked.) > - can I install without a CD-ROM (by FTP/NFS) We managed this just fine, once we'd used Partition Magic to shrink the FAT32 partition. > - what about Cardbus / PCMCIA support in FreeBSD ? AFAIK Cardbus support still isn't present, but the 82365 emulation works for 16bit cards. Bryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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