Which Toshiba OpenSolaris laptop are you talking about? The Portege or the Tecra M10? If you go to this link:
http://www.opensolaris.com/toshibanotebook/ You'll see that the Portege has the tiny 12.1" screen, while the Tecra M10 has a massive 14.1" Widescreen AND it's less expensive than the Portege (costs only 869 pounds in the UK see next link below): http://www.shopopensolaris.co.uk/suntoshiba/home.htm So what exactly is wrong with the Tecra M10? Why not get the Tecra M10 (which comes with Solaris support from Sun) instead of getting the Portege or the Tecra A9? 15" is way too big of a screen for me.... whereas 14.1" in the Tecra M10 is just right and the price, $1399.00 US for a fully loaded one with 4 GB of RAM and a 320GB hard disk drive and a 1 year OpenSolaris basic contract from Sun.... that is just absolute perfection. No way to beat that IMO, not even with the A9. I was actually really bummed out when they first unveiled the Portege R600 as "THE OpenSolaris laptop" because I thought it was way too small and way too expensive for my preferences, and I figured Compiz wouldn't work with the Intel 4500 graphics card, but selling the Tecra M10 with OpenSolaris pre-installed and the Sun support included has won me over. I think I'm going to buy one in the next few months or so after I save up some more money under the couch and see if I can triple-boot some kind of *BSD with Solaris Express and OpenSolaris 2009 on it (you don't think doing that would void my warranty, would it?). I heard OpenBSD is really bad with Nvidia cards (largely because Nvidia won't give OpenBSD devs the specs for the cards without the NDA tap dance routine) so I'm hoping FreeBSD or NetBSD will run better on it in conjunction with Solaris. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
