ideal laptop recommendations?

[edhall at weirdnoise.com (Ed Hall)]

Darryl Okahata <darrylo_(_at_)_soco_(_dot_)_agilent_(_dot_)_com> wrote:
> "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse_(_at_)_wingnet_(_dot_)_net> wrote:
> 
> > If I fall in love with an IBM, then I may just have to wait a few
> > months for the prices to go down and DVD burners to become available
> > or something...
> 
>      What about external DVD-RW drives?  (Well, I guess you'll have
> problems with support under FreeBSD.)

You won't have to wait if your laptop has firewire (and a controller
FreeBSD supports).  I use a Pioneer DVR-105 in a firewire-to-IDE case
and it works flawlessly for burning and reading DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW.

>      If you can wait a few months, you might want to look at
> Techbargains each day:
> 
> 	http://www.techbargains.com
> 
> Back in January, I found a killer deal on a Thinkpad there.  Decent
> laptop deals seem to appear every few months.  (However, you've got to
> be careful and look at all the angles and fine print -- not everything
> there is a deal, IMO.)

I have an unremarkable Compaq 2700 which supports -STABLE pretty well,
but barely runs -CURRENT.  Little to recommend unless you're worried
about your laptop blowing away in a windstorm; it's one of the heavier
"laptops" around.

		-Ed
		edhall_(_at_)_weirdnoise_(_dot_)_com

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