Low-cost, FreeBSD-compatible notebook

[Darek M]

John Kimble wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>    
>   I am looking into buying a cheap notebook computer (sub $800, the cheaper the better). I have been playing around with FreeBSD for the last few months and have decided to make it my sole OS, so I really want a notebook that's as FreeBSD-compatible as possible. I know ThinkPad's the best for Linux (I would expect the same for FreeBSD), but as they are a little out of my price range ;) I was wondering if you guys had some other suggestions.
>   

Depends on what your budget is.  I paid $1600 last year for a spiffy T42 
with a great 14" SXGA LCD.  The "Express" models on Lenovo's site are 
the cheaper versions  You can score a T20, 21, 22 or 23 on eBay really 
cheap, and still get a decent CPU with X support, so don't assume they 
come at a premium cause you might miss out on a decent machine with the 
best keyboard around.

I personally don't run FBSD on it as I have yet to see a successful 
implementation of sleep/hybernate.  So far, only Ubuntu Linux seems to 
support it in a stable way, but I replaced Windows XP's explorer.exe 
with Blackbox4Windows and cygwin, so its almost like using a unix box 
with a decent window manager.


- Darek