On Mar 27, 2006, at 9:13 AM, James Cornell wrote: > I've been wondering if the following specs were available in a > laptop out there on the market. If there is, it would be the ideal > laptop for Solaris, BSD, Linux, and Windows all-around, making it > the most economical and compatible developer workstation money > could buy.
Check out ASUS A6Km (A6Q49Km), notes below. > Laptop Needs - > > 64MB NVidia Geforce 5200 or better (ATI is a no go incase I want > accerleration support on systems other then Windows and Linux, such > as Solaris or *BSD) GeForce Go 7300 > 2.0GHz+ AMD64, Intel Centrino, Pentium M, AMD, or VIA (x86 or x86_x64) 1.6 MHz 64 bit Turion > 60GB IDE or SATA or better Mine has 100 Gb HD > 54MB+ Intel PRO Wireless A/B/G, Lucent Orinoco/WaveLan, or Atheros > WLAN (Mini-PCI Preferred for expansion) > Via, Intel 845/915/945/965, or National Semiconductor chipsets > preferred MiniPCI yepp, mine came with a Broadcom chip despite the spec, but it was easily replaced with a cheap Intel 2200bg MiniPCI card. > 100MB or 1000MB Intel, Realtek, or 3Com Onboard Ethernet Realtek 1 Gb > Atleast one PCMCIA slot Yepp > Infared is a plus Yepp > No video cameras or any of that incompatible Windows stuff Builtin USB webcam 1.3 M-pixel > 14-17" LCD or Active Matrix Screen (1024x768x24bpp or higher res) 15.4" spiffy hi-gloss LCD, 1280x800 pixel > Price must be below $1500.00 USD It was resonable priced in Sweden. > No broadcom chipsets or Microsoft Windows tax unless a non-oem full > edition Windows XP Pro disc with key is provided Winslow tax, yes. It might be hard to find a laptop without that tax. > Must hold 2-4 hours of battery life About 2.5 hours battery life Winslow, Zeta and Solaris 10u1 runs fine on this one. Kaiser Jasse -- Authorized Stealth Oracle The axioms of wisdom: 1. You can't outstubborn a cat 2. You can't conquer the universe without the knowledge of FORTRAN 3. In the Unix realm, 10% of work fixes 90% of the problems
