[BUGS] laptop for freebsd home and troubleshooting network usage

[Peter Jeremy]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:20:09AM +1000, jonathan michaels wrote:
>of tehat anything that will ship with ms windows xp
>professional,

Any new laptop will come with VISTA.  I understand the more expensive
versions of VISTA can be upgraded to XP at no charge.

>my requirements are simple, outside of having a 15/17 inch
>screen and 2 gb or 3 gb dram and it run freebsd "flawlessly" i
>am open to sugestions ..

3GB is a lot for a laptop and I've yet to see any modern laptop
run FreeBSD "flawlessly" - most have closed chips and the OSS
drivers have restricted functionality if they exist at all.

-- 
As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me to
advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal
amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product.
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