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<snip>

> 
> The Satellite line of Toshiba laptops are pretty much crap.  I've yet to 
> find a Satellite user that likes their laptop.  Even when running Windows 
> XP on it.  Getting non-Windows OSes running on them tends to be a 
> frustrating endeavor.
> 
> The Satellite Pro line is just slightly better, but not much.
> 
> I've heard great things about the Tecra line, although I've never used on 
> personally.

I have a three year old 2ghz Toshiba Satellite Pro A10 that is running 
FBSD 6.2 very well. Everything worked out of the box with no tweaking at 
all. I'm very happy  with it..

Charlie