Re: Looking for a good DFly/BSD laptop choice

[Michel Talon <talon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:

> IBM Thinkpads have traditionally been top notch notebooks. By most
> standards, they are ugly, but rather durable, work horses if you want.

Not so ugly and quite light, which is *very* important, i think.

> Cheap they aren't, but usually you can get 25% off list price by just
> asking at IBM (some creativity in asking doesn't hurt, either),
> many schools even get discounts well into the 40% range

Here they are at 50% for students, which leaves them slightly more
expensive than other comparable laptops.
The only other nice and light laptops i see around are Samsung, but i
don't know if they are durable, nor if they work with Linux or FreeBSD.


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Michel Talon