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Steve Franks wrote:
> The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on
> specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good
> generally (want to buy a laptop).  So anyone have realworld advice?
> I'm not against something used in the 1GHz+ range.
>
> <I have a compaq that is %#&*!^$.  The pcmcia will not work, the
> ndiswrapper for the broadcom panics, etc.  So, compaq is right out
> (the've always maintained their poor reputation, no?) - so compaq is
> out.  Seems gateway has an equally bad rap>
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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IBM ThinkPad you can not go wrong.

T23, T30 or T43 are $200-400 on ebay. If you are rich T60 by far the 
best laptop on the market in my opinion.