Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:39:41 +1100 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Jerry Dunham <dunham@dunham.org> Subject: Re: laptops - perhaps DELL Message-ID: <20010207123941.D33063@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200102060903.f1693HE17973@ns1.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:22:09PM %2B1300 References: <200102060903.f1693HE17973@ns1.unixathome.org>
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On Tuesday, 6 February 2001 at 22:22:09 +1300, Dan Langille wrote: > 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? I'm copying Jerry Dunham, who lurks on some of the mailing lists. He used to be in charge of engineering maintenance for Dell laptops, and may have some input. 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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