Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> C. Bergstr?m wrote: >> >>> Dave Miner wrote: >>> >>>> Alan Coopersmith wrote: >>>> >>>>> Josh Meyer wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I saw on Slashdot that Toshiba will soon sell laptops with >>>>>> OpenSolaris >>>>>> pre-installed, and presumably fully supported. Any word on when this >>>>>> will happen? >>>>>> >>>>> They made further details available this week at CES: >>>>> http://explore.toshiba.com/pressrelease/433653?fromPage=editorials >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I got a picture of it while I was there. >>>> >>>> http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/opensolaris_at_ces >>>> >>> I'm biased and not a big fan of Toshiba, but looks cheap and ugly.. >> >> I played with it for a couple of minutes at the booth; it seemed >> pretty good, though it's a comparatively slow processor, 1.3 GHz >> dual-core, so not a great development machine; you'd want the R10 >> for that instead. >> > > The Tecra's seem to be pretty solid, and I'm happy with my M9 and the > M10 I've had a chance to play with. The Protoege model looks more like > a consumer model to me in the picture, though I've not had a chance to > play with it. If I were choosing a unit for myself, I'd choose an M10 > (which is one of the units that you can get OpenSolaris bundled on.) >
I've had about 4 different Tecra's over the years (M5 currently), and I concur that they're good development systems, I did most of the early OpenSolaris live CD & installer work on this system. The Portege is definitely marketed as an executive-type machine; it's more for doing email and spreadsheets on a plane than a desktop-type power system for developers. I'm spending a lot of time on planes, and in the average airline seat, the Tecra's are just a bit too big (not to mention my arms and legs are too long ;-), so I may have to swallow my pride and get one of these. Dave
