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From: christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas)
Subject: Re: Experience with a laptop?
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In article <3ugfie$nia@ici-paris.ensta.fr> babafou@orange8.ensta.fr (Marc Baudoin) writes:
>I'd like to buy a laptop PC and to run NetBSD on it. Does anybody have any
>experience with NetBSD on a laptop PC? Problems with Ethernet board
>or video chipset?

I have an IBM 755c with 12M of ram 533M of disk, 3com 3c589 ethernet
and a MHZ 28,800 modem. If you have the muscles to lift such a beast,
it runs pretty well. I'd suggest you find something lighter. Like
a DEC hinote ultra, although I have not tried to run NetBSD on it.

christos