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Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions?
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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