From: jim mckie jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
Subject: [9fans] Newbie: Laptop recommendation sought
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 18:34:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980407223418.U_QF_57SO_nMn0FPkYD0SdK_lKLYUWm3yhaDyiYeUIk@z> (raw)
We haven't done much with laptops until recently. The 2 types we have
currently working with brazil are the
IBM Thinkpad 560 133 Pentium
Trident Cyber9385 graphics chip (800x600x8)
NEC Versa 6030 (and 6020MX) 133 (166MX) Pentium
C&T 65550 graphics chip (1024x768x8)
Both have the usual complement of ports and PCMCIA slots. Both have SB16
compatible sound (well, the Thinkpad uses an ESS1688 chip which required some
driver changes). The Thinkpad is really light (~4lbs) but even the floppy is
external.
The problem with most of the new laptops is that they use the NeoMagic graphics
chip for which there is no public information available. There are a few use the
C&T chips and some the S3 Aurora chip (Compaq 7330?) which should be trivial to
support.
We have no code for power-saving, suspend, etc. and that can be problematical.
--jim
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1998-04-07 22:34 jim [this message]
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1998-04-06 20:23 John
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