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Subject: Re: Recommended laptop for FreeBSD 10.2 Xfce workstation?
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On 02/04/2016 17:39, tech-lists wrote:
> Keeping it to a miinimum is realistic.

by this I mean find something that more-or-less fits but bear in mind
that even on windows systems, some tweaking is needed to get things
working how you want exactly. OOTB is unrealistic IMOHO if you want
something that works well.
-- 
J.