From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 2 22:49:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA19837 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:49:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA19832 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:49:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA26410; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:49:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:49:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Michael John Pelletier cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please read; I thinking about buying a laptop... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Michael John Pelletier wrote: > Hi, > > I need some serious insight. I am thinking > about buying a laptop and I want to have dual O.S. > (probably win95 (yuck) and FreeBSD. Could anyone > tell me if there are any problems with laptop support. > I am very close to buying the Micron XKE or XPE. > > Please help, I need to buy this quickly, for > my job. I don't want to get stuck with a laptop > which I can not use UNIX on.... The Digital HiNote series is a proven FreeBSD runner (at least some of the older models). They recently became available by mail order from PC Connection; I'm probing my local DEC dealer to see if they can beat the price. The PAO group has one floating around in their midst, so it should work. The top end unit, the HiNote VP 575, with a P166MMX, 16MB RAM, 2.1GB hard drive, TFT, and CD/floppy unit, is about $3400. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major