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Subject: BSD support?
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Hi all,

I am patiently saving money to purchase a laptop, hopefully by the end of this year. I would like to know if there are any laptop manufacturers that specificially support BSD, and by supporting they choose specific default hardware configurations that will give the least problems on BSD.

I did a BSD-Google search for laptop and notebook, and noticed that Dell came up more than any other company. I have been contemplating getting the Dell Inspiron 5150.

Does anyone have any comments on this model, or can anyone recommend a more BSD friendly laptop?

Cheers,
Tim


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