Subject: Re: Good and cheap laptop for NetBSD?
To: Port-i386 <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@Ngbert.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/06/1998 09:36:18
Just curious, did anyone in here happen to have bought the
new Sony VAIO laptop and got NetBSD running on it? (maybe even
a dual boot?)
thought asking it here would be faster and easier than chking the
NetBSD webpages myself.
thx for any info!
/ayn
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Jukka Marin wrote:
> I'm thinking of buying a laptop to run NetBSD and X (and editors, gcc etc).
> Laptops are quite expensive here in Finland - the cheapest ones are almost
> $2,000 (USD) :(
>
> Has anyone put together a WWW page about good laptops for this kind of use?
> Any comments you could share? What do you think about IBM Thinkpad 310E?
>
> Hm, I really think there should be a WWW page with lots of hardware info on
> it.. maybe a page where every NetBSD user could add comments and experiences
> about his/her own hardware?
>
> -jm
>
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