Looking for laptop suggestions

[doug]

Another option might be to go IBM. The Thinkpad G40 is on sale at IBM.com for 
a web-price of $724. In the past I've had no trouble getting FreeBSD to run 
smoothly on these machines (T22 w/ Savage Video Chipset).  From what I can 
recall about the newer models, or those using the RADEON chipset (I'm 
assuming you'll be needing X11), it is required that you comment out "device 
agp" in the kernel (ie. the R40), and recompile.  The G40 however uses an 
Intel chipset for video and may work out-of-the-box. Just my 2c.

http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=8663953&storeId=1&langId=-1&categoryId=2580117&dualCurrId=73&catalogId=-840

-Doug


On Monday 22 December 2003 13:54, Bill Moran wrote:
> We're looking to get a laptop for the business.  Of course, we need to make
> sure it works with FreeBSD, but money is tight, so we're trying to find the
> best deal we can that we know will work.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on lower-cost laptops that they've had
> work well with FreeBSD?
>
> We were looking at the $700 lappys that Dell is selling (Inspiron 1100),
> but I'd really like a confirmation that these are going to work before I
> spend money on one.
> http://catalog.us.dell.com/CS1/cs1page2.aspx?br=7&c=us&cs=04&fm=10423&kc=6W
>300&l=en&s=bsd