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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.walltech.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!overload.lbl.gov!gracie.lbl.gov!jin 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 Lines: 35 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, -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!g_jin@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov |