Subject: Re: z50 alternatives (was:Re: X on Z50 working)
To: josh <dorqus@bsdfreek.com>
From: John Utz <john@utzweb.net>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 01/08/2002 11:13:21
you have an 800? not an 880?
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, josh wrote:
> Tom Gottheil wrote...
> > Also, the NEC Mobilepro is an excellent machine. It's simialr to the Z50,
> > and it's quite cheap (or at least was) on Ubid. I'm not sure if they have
> > any more, but it is really very nice. Full-size keyboard, and it runs
> > NetBSD great.
>
> I have a NEC Mobilepro 800 which is nice. It will do 800x600 vs
> the z50's 640x480. I'm using an Orinoco Wavelan card and I have a
> 256mb CF card in it. Works great as a portable terminal, much
> quieter than a laptop, lighter, and longer battery life.
> The few things I don't like about it are the lame touch screen,
> which has mixed accuracy, and the lack of a true screen blank/suspend
> (which I know is not an option - the suspend that is) and the lack
> of being able to use a USB mouse (or serial mouse for that matter) I picked
> mine up for $300 sealed in the box on ebay.com. I highly recommend
> ion as a window manager, as it truly does not need a mouse for
> anything (I use the mouse when I have Netscape displayed back
> from another machine on my local network)
>
> --
> josh
>
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