Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 18:10:59 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Dmitry V. Kalashnikov" <dvk@qwest.net> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org, "Dmitry V . Kalashnikov" <dvk@toolbuilders.com> Subject: Re: My perfect laptop! Message-ID: <20010508181059.G68969@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010507232957.dvk@qwest.net>; from dvk@qwest.net on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:29:57PM -0000 References: <20010504152707.U73572@wantadilla.lemis.com> <XFMail.20010507232957.dvk@qwest.net>
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On Monday, 7 May 2001 at 23:29:57 -0000, Dmitry V. Kalashnikov wrote: > > On 04-May-2001 Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Wednesday, 2 May 2001 at 20:41:48 -0700, Dmitry V . Kalashnikov wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> After much pain and suffering from my qwest to find a perfect FreeBSD >>> laptop, >>> I decided to ask mobile for some help: >>> >>> I am looking for a laptop that has following specs: >>> >>> * 13.3 TFT,1024x768 (16bpp) or better >>> * 16-bit sound >>> * Video RAM: 8+ Mb >>> * working modem (non-winmodem) >>> * 500+ Mhz CPU >>> * up to 256MB RAM or more >>> * 10+ Gb HDD or more >>> * with an option of DVD drive >>> >>> I don't care how much it costs. If you know the manufacturer that makes a >>> laptop close to these figures, please let me know. >> >> Modulo the modem, you can take your pick of just about any modern >> laptop. When you consider that a PCMCIA modem costs about $30, I >> wouldn't restrict my search based on that criterion. > > Thanks Greg, I think I need to get out more often. Nah, the thing > is, most modern laptops do have weird video cards and "unknown" > sound cards. True. But that issue wasn't on your list :-) > I am afraid, the quest for a perfect laptop is a little harder than > going to a local computer store; however, it doesn't have to be all > that perfect. What are you using? I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 (last year's model, now out of production :-) On the whole I'm quite happy with Dell. Other people like Sony and IBM. Note that IBM had some problems with recent BIOSes which caused the machine to freeze up if it found a FreeBSD partition on disk. That problem has been fixed on at least some of the machines, but you should check first. 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-mobile" in the body of the message
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