From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 5 13:13:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA29022 for mobile-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 13:13:58 -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 NAA29017 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 13:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA10130; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 14:13:04 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 14:13:04 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709052013.OAA10130@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: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: High-resolution displays In-Reply-To: <199709051921.PAA04435@hda.hda.com> References: <199709051727.LAA09357@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199709051921.PAA04435@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 > > > 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. > > > > ... 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. ;) > > Then you lose one of the best features of the laptop: the solid box > with everything built in. And you lose two of the best features of not having it built in, which are weight and ruggedness. Almost *all* of the newer boxes have the 'swappable' CD-ROMS, which makes for weakness in the cases which don't exist in the boxes that don't have them built-in. I'll put my non-built in box with the external CD against *any* box you want to throw at it for ruggedness. > Which brings up another point for those in the > market to consider: The IBM has an external power supply while some > laptops have it built in. *All* of the laptops I've ever used (NEC, IBM, Toshiba, Fujitsu, HP) have external power supplies. Nate