Re: ideal laptop recommendations?
Ed Hall <[email protected]>
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Darryl Okahata <[email protected]> wrote: > "Jesse D. Guardiani" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If I fall in love with an IBM, then I may just have to wait a few > > months for the prices to go down and DVD burners to become available > > or something... > > What about external DVD-RW drives? (Well, I guess you'll have > problems with support under FreeBSD.) You won't have to wait if your laptop has firewire (and a controller FreeBSD supports). I use a Pioneer DVR-105 in a firewire-to-IDE case and it works flawlessly for burning and reading DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW. > If you can wait a few months, you might want to look at > Techbargains each day: > > http://www.techbargains.com > > Back in January, I found a killer deal on a Thinkpad there. Decent > laptop deals seem to appear every few months. (However, you've got to > be careful and look at all the angles and fine print -- not everything > there is a deal, IMO.) I have an unremarkable Compaq 2700 which supports -STABLE pretty well, but barely runs -CURRENT. Little to recommend unless you're worried about your laptop blowing away in a windstorm; it's one of the heavier "laptops" around. -Ed [email protected] > -- > Darryl Okahata > [email protected] > > DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not > constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or > of the little green men that have been following him all day. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"