Dell i7500 or Toshiba 1005-S157?

[Timothy Luoma]

We have two laptops.  Currently both have WinXP on them, and I'm trying to 
decide which I'll put FreeBSD on.

One is a Dell Inspiron 7500 and the other is a Toshiba 1005-S157.  I know 
that folks have gotten FreeBSD to work on the Dell, but I have not found 
much about FreeBSD and the Toshiba 1005-S157.


The Dell has been my regular laptop, and I really like it.  The Toshiba is 
my wife's and she's no longer using it.  I don't like it as much.

I've installed FreeBSD a few times but never enough to actually use it.  I 
figure the best way to do it is to take one of the machines and dedicate 
it to FreeBSD, and I can use the other one for my daily stuff until I have 
it working well enough for me to use it as my daily machine.

Make sense?

So the question is, which should I switch to FreeBSD?

They both have 256mb ram.

The Toshiba runs 1024x768, the Dell 1400x1050

The Dell has 30gb hard drive (C:\ is 12gb and D:\ is 16gb), the Toshiba 
has a 15gb

The Toshiba is a Celeron 1.06ghz, the Dell is a 650Mhz

I'm thinking about just taking over the Toshiba as my daily machine, and 
putting FreeBSD on D:\ on the Dell and start using that to learn/setup 
FreeBSD.  That way if I hose the Dell I can still get my daily work done.

But then I'm thinking that I can devote the entire Toshiba to FreeBSD, and 
it has the faster processor.  I assume I'll be running WINE for a few 
Windows apps, and when I need to update/compile faster = better, right?

So I thought I'd ask you folks for your thoughts.

TjL