The Best Laptop

Dag-ErlingSmørgrav des at des.no
Tue Mar 30 14:01:26 PST 2004


Bruce M Simpson <bms at spc.org> writes:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:48:07PM -0500, Jason Dusek wrote:
> > I am in the market for a new laptop and I would like to know which 
> > laptop is the best for running FreeBSD and which one has the easiest 
> > setup.  Any suggestions?
> The IBM ThinkPad T40 is currently rocking my world.

The ThinkPad series has a long history of bad batteries, buggy BIOSes
and AMLs, and idiosyncratic hardware which often requires a DOS or
Windows utility to enable / disable / configure.  I'd recommend a Dell
Latitude (not Inspiron!) instead.

DES
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