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Subject: Re: What laptop do you recommend?
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 freebsd@meijome.net wrote:

> hi everyone,
> I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work
> WELL with freeBSD? e.g.:
>
> ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible)
> PATA / SATA with no problems
> all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound,
> touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course
>
> Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips.
>
> >From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs
> (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba,
> but I don't think they are so well supported.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :)
>
> Best regards,
> Beto
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I have an IBM Thinkpad R51, it works very well and I reccomend it highly.