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Subject: Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?
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Chad Perrin writes:

>  In my experience, ThinkPads are among the highest quality laptops
>  on the market.

	At one point, Thinkpads - particularly the T4x series - were
_the_ recommended used laptop.  While it's been a while since i
looked into this formally, my grapevine says the quality went
downhill quickly after Lenovo bought IBM's pc hardware division.


				Robert Huff