Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:06:20 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS? Message-ID: <20110218050620.GA81273@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20110218032357.GD2049@comcast.net> References: <3380813072-1551442120@intranet.com.mx> <20110218032357.GD2049@comcast.net>
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--XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:23:57PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: >=20 > Does it have to be new? =20 >=20 > The best deal might be to get a used laptop. Then it doesn't matter > what it originally shipped with, all you care about is whether it's on > the FreeBSD hardware compatibility list. >=20 > Along these lines, I've seen many people recommending used ThinkPads. > Might not be powerful enough for the latest Windows, but more than > capable for running a BSD. Be very careful buying used laptops. There are a lot of refurbishers who are very shady, and a lot of private sellers online that are trying to make a fast buck off broken hardware. In fact, I wrote some code for a shady refurbisher last year to clean infections of their laptops -- infections that had worked its way into the images they used to clone drives for refurbished computers. I think thousands of their systems probably went out infected before they had me automate the virus-cleaning process for them. The short version is simply that I've seen how shady refurbishers work, up close and personal. Let the buyer beware. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk1d/kwACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKV26QCeMU3FEBi/hQm6rWjqT32XmAfg zykAoJ2YIOtcy3RUtJh9SHCU+1PROs/W =O2Tu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XsQoSWH+UP9D9v3l--
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