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From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: suggestion on laptop to run FreeBSD
Date: 16 Aug 1996 00:17:55 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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Message-ID: <4v0enj$jhb@overload.lbl.gov>
NNTP-Posting-Host: gracie.lbl.gov
Keywords: Notebook Laptop

I am going to buy a Color Pentinum Notebook to run FreeBSD, and had no
experience on the Notebook at all. Would someone please give me some
suggestions on the following areas?

(1)	motherboards:

	OPTi Viper
	UMC 8891, 8892
	Intel 82430 MX
	Pico Power
	Toshiba

(2)	Display:

	    LCD-panel
		dual-scan
		active-matrix
	    Graphics chips
		C&T 655xx
		Cirrus Logic CL-GD754x

(3)	Ethernet card:

	ANY ?

Any suggestion, comments, good/bad features will be helpful.

Thanks in advance,


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