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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:02:58 -0600
From:      Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Laptop opinions!
Message-ID:  <199802181902.NAA09950@kai.nectar.com>

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Hi everyone,

I seem to recall scanning by several emails regarding problems getting
FreeBSD to work on IBM ThinkPads.  I'm about to purchase a new laptop,
and I would like to hear about peoples' experience with ThinkPads and
Compaq Armadas, or others if you feel strongly about them :-)

In particular, I'm looking at a ThinkPad 560X...

For what it is worth, I currently have a Texas Instruments (Acer
really) laptop that works fairly well under FreeBSD, with only a
couple of annoynaces: (1) there is some BIOS PC Card support called
``CardBus'', that prevents PC Cards from working under FreeBSD when
enabled and prevents PC Cards from working under Windows 95 when
disabled; (2) I can't seem to figure out how to turn off ``clicking''
on the built-in TouchPad ... very annoying when typing under X ...

Thanks for any input!

Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>

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