Re: Dell i7500 or Toshiba 1005-S157?
Timothy Luoma <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:40:31 -0400 (EDT), Stuart Barkley <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a Toshiba 1005-S157 and am running FreeBSD 4.7 (currently, soon > to upgrade to 4.8/4.9). After over a year using it, I'm still don't > like it and wish I had purchased some other brand (but I'm not sure > what). I really liked the Dell Latitude I had at my previous job and > it ran FreeBSD quite well. > > I have a web page describing my Toshiba setup. There are some things > you will need to deal with: > > http://www.4gh.net/hints/toshiba/satellite1005-s157.html > >> But then I'm thinking that I can devote the entire Toshiba to >> FreeBSD, and it has the faster processor. I assume I'll be running >> WINE for a few Windows apps, and when I need to update/compile >> faster = better, right? > > You might play around on with FreeBSD on the Toshiba first leaving > your current Dell untouched. Once you have a little more experience > you can try FreeBSD on the Dell. Thanks... I think that is exactly what I will do. Tomorrow afternoon I'm going to CD-R my wife's files and try getting FreeBSD working on it. The one real hitch may be the modem. I only have dialup at home, so I'd need to get the modem working to be useful at home. I have Ethernet to shared DSL at the office, so I'll probably use that for getting it setup. TjL _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"