> 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): > > > ttp://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?
There is nothing wrong with the M10 but I prefer the higher resolution, larger screen (A9 has 1980x1050 matt finish wide 15.4"). The price is similar, although the HDD and RAM were half what the M10 offer has and the HDD on my A9 is only 160GB (A9 12H model code). I did buy that about a year ago so you can probably get 7200rpm 320GB HDD and 4GB RAM A9 for same as M10 only with the bigger higher res screen (and upgrade to nVidia graphics instead of Intel 3100 which is very slow on non-Windows OS. Cheers Andrew. > > 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]
