Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

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Hi all,

I brought a new ThinkPad T61 for work, the hardware is as follows:

T7300(2GHz), 2GB RAM, 120GB 5400rpm HD, 15.4in 1680x1050 LCD, 128MB nVIDIA 
Quadro NVS 140M, CDRW/DVDRW, Intel 802.11agn(n-disabled), Bluetooth, Modem, 
1Gb Ethernet, UltraNav, Secure chip, Intel Turbo, 9c Li-Ion,

My current working involves scientific calculation and programming. I'm from a 
linux background(redhat, debian, ubuntu), but after some googling and 
comparison, I found FreeBSD more stable and I want to try FreeBSD.  I am tired 
of a dual-boot system, so I want to just install FreeBSD or another linux 
distribution(maybe ubuntu) on my notebook.

My questions are:
1) Can FreeBSD work well with my hardware? The display card, CDRW/DVDRW, 
wireless, Ethernet and battery managment are the most important.

2) I have read the FreeBSD Handbook. According to Chapter 10: Linux Binary 
Compatibility, it seems that FreeBSD lacks support of many commercial 
softwares such as MATLAB, Oracle, Mathematica. Is the linux binary 
compatibility stable enough for work ?

Thanks a lot.