Re: Medium to High end notebook/laptop suitable for FBSD
David Gilbert <[email protected]>
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>>>>> "Malcolm" == Malcolm Kay <[email protected]> writes: Malcolm> Thanks for your response. The Dell D800 certainly looks Malcolm> interesting. Malcolm> Stefan Eßer has also strongly recommended a Centrino based Malcolm> machine. Malcolm> But others are suggesting various IBM Thinkpad models and I Malcolm> must also give some credance to their suggestions. I've Malcolm> ceratinly not yet made a choice. Let me take a momment to speak about the Centrino... because you can get centrino laptops from all vendors right now. The P4 has been very bleak for laptops. P4 laptops are very heavy for two reasons: 1st, they have huge heatsinks and many fans, and 2nd, they require huge batteries to support same. Even if you don't use your machine "on the go", you're paying a huge weight penalty for the p4. But the P4 is a homage to marketing. "Lets see how many horses we can cram into this thing" style of LCD marketing driven engineering. AMD has successfully attacked this. The centrino is a return to sanity. Your laptop can weigh more than a pound less and have similar performance. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [email protected] | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"