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Ask HN: Best *BSD Laptops

Recently I've been looking into BSD, and was wondering if HN had any good pics for a laptop to run *BSD. Doesn't have to come preinstalled by the way.

mailslot 13y ago
OS X is BSD based. ;)
- garrettdreyfus 13y ago
  Forgot to close that loophole! Dang
  - dkuntz2 13y ago
    Why? It and Solaris are the only even somewhat known OSs that are 100% POSIX complaint... All that aside, I understand completely not wanting a Mac. I don't know about the BSDs, but Thinkpads are wonderful with Linux.
    - garrettdreyfus 13y ago
      Haha I actually own a mac and love it. However I have no experience with freebsd or its kin (pc-bsd, and dragon fly bsd) and I'd like to get familiar with its structure and its workings.
a3n 13y ago
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/laptop/article.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/laptop/article.html https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bsd+laptop https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bsd+laptop A number of reviews and bsd forum threads in the second link. I got the impression skimming through that Intel is better supported than AMD on (some?) BSDs, but that may be as of 2010-ish.
- garrettdreyfus 13y ago
  after using duck duck go per your suggestion I found this link. http://www.pcbsd.org/store/?cat=16 http://www.pcbsd.org/store/?cat=16
cylinder714 13y ago
OpenBSD runs fine on my Lenovos, a T420 and an X220, both running Intel graphics.