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From: Matthias Schmidt <schmidtm@mathematik.uni-marburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Nice compact lightweight powerful laptop ...
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He,

* kiffin.gish@planet.nl wrote:
> Since I will be travelling alot in the near future, I have been looking
> into purchasing a nice, fancy laptop dedicated to running FreeBSD 6.x
> and the Gnome desktop.
> 
> It needs to be light-weight and portable for in the plane, support wifi,
> have a long battery life, relatively fast graphics, 1GB memory and
> around 2Ghz fast.

I recommend a IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T or X series.

> There are so many choices out there that I do not know where to start.
> Any suggestions would be helpful.
> 
> Is there a known list somewhere of supported/tested laptops?

Have a look at the FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List:

	http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/

Greets

	Matthias