heard on the grapevine...
Jules Gilbert <[email protected]>
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A friend of mine was recently contacted by DELL. They offered him a 45-day free trial of a dynamite laptop, based on 1920 pixels on a side, and AMD 64-bit internals, running at 2.2Ghz. A battery consisting of 12 cells, instead of the usual 8, which they claim will support four hours of use. Probably, it's a decent system. For free. For 45 days. Apparently, DELL has changed their marketing habits. I have a 32-bit Inspiron, model 1150, which doesn't play well with FreeBSD at all! I can't use the built-in winModem, and it has some other issues, too. My point: I expect that we need to contact DELL and get them to make things a little easier for the FreeBSD community -- because I found my Inspiron so difficult to support that I had to go back to a split disk, with some portion lost to XP. But if we were to help them along, I'll bet they would love to support us -- and sell even more laptops, too... --jg PS: Once upon a time, Ford gave me a car they were about to annouce to test-drive. For free. On the condition that afterward I answer a few questions. But this laptop trial is intended to sell their laptops. A good idea. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"