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From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
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On Apr 6, 2006, at 9:35 AM, David Schulz wrote:

> If there is anyone out there, that can recommend a new Laptop  
> (Price is not an issue) that runs FreeBSD nicely, please let me  
> know, i would most appreciate it.

Apple released Boot Camp for their Intel based machines yesterday. I  
don't doubt it will be long before someone tries to install FreeBSD  
on Apple's new hardware. Meanwhile with a MacBook Pro you'd have a  
commercially supported Unix also too.

I'm rather impressed with my MacBook:
dkelly@Laptop {39} uname -a
Darwin Laptop.local 8.6.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.1: Tue Mar  7  
16:55:45 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.9.22.obj~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386