new laptop suggestions - not the usual stuff

Martin Cracauer cracauer at seagull.cons.org
Fri Jul 30 07:56:00 PDT 2004


Gianmarco wrote on Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:01:36AM +0200: 
> 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...) 

Which wireless option do you have?

And how the hell do I choose the big display on that mess of a
website? Sorry :-)

Martin
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