[...] > I'm using a Dell D600, and it's excellent.. > > Eric > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology > Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm also running -current on a Dell laptop (a Precision M60 with the large (1920x1200 pixels) screen). It works pretty well, although not perfectly: I have not managed to have ACPI working properly and I have problems with the Nvidia driver (I had to revert to the XFree nv driver to get X running). Also, the FireFox port can be compiled and installed but the resulting program core dumps too often to be usable. This may be because I'm using a cutting edge X-server from XFree86 (version 4.4.99.9); anyway, I am now obliged to use Netscape which is not my browser of choice :( On the other hand, the OS is rock solid and all the sub-systems work perfectly: USB1, USB2, FireWire, PC-cards, CD/RW/DVD reader, Bluetooth, the Broadcom NICs (either the 10/100/1000 Mb/s wired ethernet, or the 802.11 a/b/g wireless card)! To my knowledge, this OS is the best fit for this machine :) Also, the machine itself is excellent: it runs fast, has a silent and fast hard disk and the screen is a dream. This laptop is just a bit heavy to carry and it pumps the battery way too quickly (in my case, 2 hours and a half is enough to dry it up). In conclusion: a very good OS/machine combination, that would be excellent if only the ACPI system could slow down the processor and put the machine asleep... Hope this helps, Pierre Weis INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis_at_inria.fr, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis/Received on Wed Jul 21 2004 - 20:19:53 UTC
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