For a laptop, if you're looking for a "just work" solution, I would say forget it. Automagic full support for touchpad, energy management and such is not there

For a laptop, if you're looking for a "just work" solution, I would say forget it. Automagic full support for touchpad, energy management and such is not there yet. Not too surprising, even linux still has trouble here and there with laptops, but I think trying it in that context would make you dislike freebsd for the wrong reason. But on a server or even a desktop computer, it's really great