The Best Laptop

[Pete Carss]

Funny, I've been trying to run FreeBSD on a HP/compaq nx9005, to try and 
get away from Apple, its definately "money no object"...although the 
argument has changed - Its not Apple hardware that's dear, and the money 
saved in setup/fiddling time is probably worth something...its more that 
I was trying to save money on software, I'm happy using 
AbiWord/Gnumeric/Eclipse/Blender etc - but they feel pretty 
schitzophrenic on Mac OS X.

Thanks to a recent thread on this list my nx9005 is getting a lot of use 
- I've had to track current, but its mostly stable. Got powernow 
working, now It geels like a laptop again...originally I bought it as it 
was the cheapest non-celeron laptop in the UK - when you crank it up its 
pretty swift. I does have the best trackpad I've ever used on a laptop. 
It has a strip on the right with a ridge seperating it from the rest of 
the tracking area - if you add a ZAxisMapping line to XF86Config it 
works for scrolling - really sweet. It also has a button to disable the 
trackpad - realy usefull when your typing...

Actually this is my first post to this list...but I owe it quite a lot - 
  I finally feel like I got myself a little unix-go anywhere workhorse - 
for next to nothing...saved me from gentoo hell

Thanks Guys...

Pete


> 
> If money is no object and you don't strictly need FreeBSD then I recommend
> Powerbooks. Pretty GUI with a true UNIX core (Darwin). My boss has one of
> the big 17" models. They're awsome.
>