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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@strakt.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ideal plan9 laptop
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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:22:09 +0100
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Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> Any recommendations?

I think Sony VAIOs are great:

    - small, fast, light, thin, 5620 style key action, touch pad

However, make sure that it has a supported Ethernet interface
and a supported graphics 'card'.  This can be tricky.

I have two.  Russ and I worked out how to do a USB floppy install,
but one doesn't have a supported Ethernet card and the other doesn't
have a (fully) supported graphics card.

The default disk partition seems to be half for c: and the other
half is unused -- ideal for Plan 9 [no messy partition/reinstallation
games].