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Date:      Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:17:58 +0200
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Laptop suggestions?
Message-ID:  <20080725141758.GA20940@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080725130038.GT74748@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:00:38PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> Successive generations of laptops have become less and less
> free-OS-friendly.

This is simply wrong. Most laptops ship either with Ati or Intel
chipset. Both tend to be well supported. With a bit care, you will get
wpi as wireless chipset (e.g. avoid draft n). I found ACPI compliance to
have improved a lot over the recent time and in fact the number of ACPI
bugs that can't be worked around in general ways has become very low.

Joerg



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