Chris Kuethe wrote:
Through mysterious circumstances, my Thinkpad T42 disappeared in the
Minneapolis airport today.
I know it went into the xray machine. I know I didn't have it in my
carry-on when I got home. When and where it went between those two
points, I cannot say. I've called the airports, the airlines, the TSA
security checkpoint and lost/found ... no joy. I'll continue bugging
Them for the next couple of days, but I'm about ready to put my Monty
Python hat on and say "It is an ex-Laptop!"
Now with that tale out of the way, what's good for laptops these days?
I'm likely to dual-boot windows so I can occasionally run IDA, Google
Earth, BZFlag and various GPS tools... (which means that some kind of
OpenGL support would be nice). Primarily (ie. except for an hour or so
on "patch tuesday") it'd be running openbsd. Things that might be nice
to have:
* DVD writer
* working sound
* onboard gbit net
* a/b/g wireless
* usb2
* a real serial port
* working suspend/resume
* accelerated X
That's not too much to ask, is it? ;) If some nice people could help
me find one, that would be just super.
http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop
You won't get a real serial port, but on the other end you will be
able to run windoze, OSX, OpenBSD all a the same time, which is pretty
neat...
Cedric
