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Date:      Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:01:16 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Jason Dusek <jdusek@cs.uiowa.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: The Best Laptop
Message-ID:  <xzphdw6q9jn.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040330201107.GA95453@empiric.dek.spc.org> (Bruce M. Simpson's message of "Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:11:07 %2B0100")
References:  <40686157.3020902@cs.uiowa.edu> <20040330201107.GA95453@empiric.dek.spc.org>

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Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:48:07PM -0500, Jason Dusek wrote:
> > I am in the market for a new laptop and I would like to know which=20
> > laptop is the best for running FreeBSD and which one has the easiest=20
> > setup.  Any suggestions?
> The IBM ThinkPad T40 is currently rocking my world.

The ThinkPad series has a long history of bad batteries, buggy BIOSes
and AMLs, and idiosyncratic hardware which often requires a DOS or
Windows utility to enable / disable / configure.  I'd recommend a Dell
Latitude (not Inspiron!) instead.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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