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> I asked them what hardware runs pretty much all BSD's. Vermaden narrowed it down to a few Thinkpads.

What were the recommended models?



Vermaden's comments on that were here:

https://lobste.rs/s/szzgjl/cheap_bsd_friendly_notebook

All the ones I saw in good condition on eBay were Intel's. I got a T420 with Core i7 to mitigate potential slowdowns from future CPU vulnerabilities. I've occasionally had to restart it from suspend/resume issues. Otherwise, it's been great.

One more thing: the function key and control key are swapped compared to most laptops. I didn't like that because I'm used to control being far left. duclare told me about a BIOS setting that swaps them back. Everything's fine now. :)




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