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From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions?
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:35:44PM +0300, Razmig K wrote:
> How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron  
> 1525N and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running  
> FreeBSD smoothly? A quick glance over the hardware notes of 7.0-RELEASE  
> and some googling around show that wireless, video and audio are 
> supported.

A co-worker of mine has a Dell (I forget which model; I'll ask him this
coming week), running Kubuntu.  The overall compatibility is quite good,
and I haven't heard any complaints from him.

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