Laptop recommendations for 6.x

[Uwe Laverenz]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:30:32AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:

> The T42 is quite old.  I imagine the technology's moved on a little bit 
> (lighter, faster, etc).  And separate wireless cards mean more tech to 
> carry around, get lost, etc.

The T41/42 have several advantages in general and especially for FreeBSD
users:

- spare parts are easily available, it is no problem to buy a mini PCI
card with atheros chipset from IBM/Lenovo

- the T41/42 hardware is completely supported by FreeBSD, which is not
the case for the X60/T60 models (wireless, sound)

- they are quiet, which is not the case for the slightly newer T43/T43p,
that would also be a good choice otherwise

> "good choice of model" is the key.  What T or X series ThinkPad would you 
> recommend that works well with FreeBSD?

I have T41 and a T43p and I won't switch to a T60 as long
as it's not fully supported by FreeBSD.

my 2 cents :)

bye,
Uwe