new laptop suggestions - not the usual stuff

[Gianmarco]

On Friday 30 July 2004 06:26, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
> Thanks to you all for your suggestions.  Unfortunately, I think I am
> going to have to give up on the AMD64 piece for now and just settle for
> everything else in a HP NC8000.  My wife has a NC3000 from work and it
> is a very nice machine, so I am ok with the NC8000.
>
> P.S. - my desire for the pointing stick is born of using ThinkPads for
> many years, and I would certainly get a ThinkPad instead of the NC8000
> if they were anywhere close to one another in price...

I have a dell latitude d600, which has the stick (plus the standard pointing 
system) and works very well with FreeBSD (display 14.1 1400x1050, low weight, 
acpi working, wifi supportted, gigabit ethernet too etc etc...)