Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:36:32 +1100 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net> Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptops - perhaps DELL Message-ID: <20010207123632.B33063@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010206081526.E98288@peorth.iteration.net>; from keichii@iteration.net on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 08:15:26AM -0600 References: <200102060903.f1693HE17973@ns1.unixathome.org> <20010206081526.E98288@peorth.iteration.net>
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On Tuesday, 6 February 2001 at 8:15:26 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:22:09PM +1300, Dan Langille scribbled: >> I lusted over Murray Stokely's laptop at BSDCon 2000. He loaned it to >> me so I could convert my FreshPorts presentation from PowerPoint to, >> ummm, whatever it was that came with Star Office. It was a fine looking >> screen and seemed quite solid. Murray just pointed me at: >> >> <http://www.dell.com/us/en/dhs/offers/specials_3x_special09.htm>; >> >> where the $2049 price tag for a 700MHz processor, 128MB ram, 10GB >> disk and a 15" screen looks pretty good to me. I don't think I'll need >> that MS Works bundle, so I'm sure I'll get a hefty discount (not) if they >> take that off. Do they preinstall? Actually, I'd be inclined to install >> myself.... There's something about knowing exactly what's on the box >> that gives me a better feeling. >> >> Any opinions? Any contacts at DELL? > > The following is seemingly the consensus of -mobile: > Pick between the following with 1 or 2 preferred - > ... > > 4. IBM X20 and A20 Note that some BIOS revisions on these models don't work AT ALL with FreeBSD. In fact, the mere presence of a FreeBSD partition causes them to go catatonic. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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