From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 5 10:28:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA20774 for mobile-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 10:28:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA20723 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 10:27:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA09357; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:27:02 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:27:02 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709051727.LAA09357@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Peter Dufault Cc: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra), freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: High-resolution displays In-Reply-To: <199709051453.KAA03678@hda.hda.com> References: <199709041536.IAA00947@austin.polstra.com> <199709051453.KAA03678@hda.hda.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > ... I don't care about CD-ROM drives or any sort of multimedia. > > (If the rest of my life went by without another computer blinking or > > beeping at me, I'd be a happy guy.) > > A quick note about a CDROM: I wish my laptop had one since it would > be an ideal system for hooking into an ethernet and > installing packages, etc, from. PAO has support for the newer Sonys running off PCMCIA cards. I've got one, but have never tried it out since I haven't done any laptop code hacking in months. In any case, you can have an external CD-ROM if you really want one, plus the advantage of having a way to play CD's on the plane w/out using your laptop battery. ;) nate