From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed,  5 May 1999 08:45:29 +0100
From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
Subject: [9fans] Brazil (sorry)
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>>I wouldn't ask but I am about to invest in a Laptop and would love to run
>>Plan9 on it so it makes sense to but a supported machine rather than
>>do a heafty porting exercise all for the want of a bit of advice.

it's fine on my thinkpad 600 because the firmware looks after
the power management and suspend business well enough to be quite
usable without my having to wade through the APM and ACPI specs.
the thinkpad has got a three-button pointing device built-in.
(i usually attach a ps2 mouse and the thinkpad merges the data streams
with the trackpoint data.)  Plan9 uses 1024x768x8 on the TFT screen.
the internal modem is not usable.  the crystal sound system should be
usable but i haven't tried it yet.