Laptop suggestions please

[Espen Tagestad]

Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> C O <christophermobrien3 at yahoo.com> was heard to say:
> 
> 
>>Anyone know of a laptop that FreeBSD supports well
>>enough to use all of its capabilities?
>>
> this might help you to get started:
> 
> http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/

Stay away from all modern Acer laptops. They use "Smart batteries" which 
is not supported in FreeBSD yet. That means you'll be unable to retrieve 
battery information. It's on the ACPI todo list, but it's not 
implemented yet, not even on CURRENT.

I would recommend one of the IBM laptops, maybe T41/T42 or one of the 
X-series. They seem to work very well as far as I have read (I don't 
have one myself).

regards,

Espen Tagestad