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. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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