Laptop choices

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:42, Graham North wrote:
> Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck
> winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP.
>
> Dell Latitude d600 with Radeon 9000? video, intel pro wireless
> or
> IBM R51 - Intel Extreme2, intel pro wireless.
> The main differences will likely be the video and maybe bios, acpi...?
> Can someone suggest to me whether these are both safe choices?

I'd say the Dell's video is more likely to work (even 3d).

> Am I better off installing 5.4 or 6.0?

I'd try 6.0 myself.

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