Laptop suggestions?

[knowtree at aloha.com]

> On Jul 25, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:34:32 -0500, Frank Mayhar <frank at exit.com>  
> > wrote:
> >
> >> My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix,  
> >> sigh,
..

> >
> > Maybe you can wait for this:
> >
> > http://www.ixsystems.com/products/bsd-laptop.html
> 
> Hi everyone! I actually had our prototype of this laptop up at the  
> OSCON show in Portland and it was pretty well received.
> Everything works for the most part although we're still tweaking some  
> things for ACPI.
> 
> I'll have one at the FreeBSD booth at LinuxWorld in San Francisco next  
> week, August 5-7. We'll announce as soon as this thing is 100% and  
> we're comfortable bringing the product line up as an item that we're  
> comfortable supporting long term. Most likely, available to the  
> general public in September.

Matt -

I may have just found my next laptop. A few questions:

1. Case size?

2. Weight? (It sounds heavy.)

3. Built-in camera? Specs?

4. Why FreeBSD 6.x and not 7.x?

5. Built-in modem not a winmodem?

6. Suspend will work, reliably, including networking?

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Gary Dunn
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