Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:00:43 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for laptops Message-ID: <38D0E90B.A8CB65E3@newsguy.com> References: <200003150751.AAA85374@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote:
>
> I'm looking to acquire a couple of laptops for testing. It has become
> clear to me that my VAIO is just too friendly to the current code and
> I need some active hostility that only a Dell Lattitude or Compaq
> Presario can offer :-). To that end, I'm looking to purchase/trade
> second hand laptops for a reasonable amount. I don't have much money
> to spend on this project, so last year's models are what I had in
> mind. Or even the year before's.
MMmmm... my Presario 1621 works just fine, thank you. APM works (power
off & suspend), the CardBus slots work fine with PCMCIA cards, even
sound is working. Modem isn't working, and I think once it did, but my
connection, nowadays, is through the serial port. My version is pre-USB,
but, given my overall experience, I don't think I'd have any problems.
Of course, there are other Presarios, and then there are the Armadas.
> I may consider broken machines that work well enough for my testing
> purposes. Bad lcd, but working vga port, for example. They do need
> to be able to boot FreeBSD and have the ability to insert/remove
> pccard/cardbus cards, apm suspend functioning and ideally would
> operate on battery power. That last one isn't absolutely required.
> It would also be nice if they had enough disk for a make installworld
> to fit with about 20MB + 4x RAM to spare (for crash dumps, swap and
> the like). I think that puts the lower limit at about 600MB.
Mmmmm... what exactly do you mean by "hostility", then? :-)
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