Re: Laptop dead, suggestions?
Wesley Morgan <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 15 May 2006, Warner Losh wrote: > Greetings, > > My Sony VAIO Z1W died this weekend at BSDcan. Both the hard dirve and > the laptop are dead. The hard drive doesn't spin up on about half a > dozen different machines and enclosures. The data is likely gone > forever, unless I can find a good data recovery place. > > So, I'm in the market for a new laptop. Unless someone is donating me > a decent one, I'd like it to have the following characteristics: > >= 1GHz speed > >= 512MB RAM > >= 40GB hard disk > Excellent battery life > light weight (< 4 pounds?) > decent scren > well constructed > PC Card slot > ExpressCard slot > SD card slot (with the standard SD host interface) > builtin wireless > > Does anybody have any recommendations? I love my Tecra M5 from Toshiba. Even though the sound, internal wireless, SD card, and pretty much all of the ACPI sleep functions don't work in FreeBSD, it's still a gorgeous lightweight powerhouse. Magnesium alloy cases are to die for. The way I figure it, eventually my devices will be supported, so the laptop just gets better with age! -- This .signature sanitized for your protection _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"