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Subject: Re: Advise for buying a Refurbished machine
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>   I need an advice  from  FreeBSD users.  I would like to buy a  refurbished notebook from IBM.
>
> Model   IBM T60   > I heard  T60 series are excellent ?

i heard too. but my T23 is :)

>
> Please see this URL   and apecifications  of the notebook http://www-304.ibm.com/shop/americas/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/default/ProductDisplay?productId=4611686018425958881&storeId=1&langId=-1&categoryId=2576396&dualCurrId=73&catalogId=-840
>
> I want to know
> 1)  whether this notebook go well with FreeBSD-7.x  versions ?


should work. buying used older machine is actually low risk route. newer 
are usually less compatible.