NetBSD on laptops?

"Basket Case" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi NetBSD people

I'm looking to buy a new laptop and simultaneously learning to run
NetBSD on it. I've some experience with Linux, so I'm not a total
n00b, but I haven't really done much "in-depth" with any BSD.

I would like to know what laptop vendors/models people recommend for
installing NBSD on, and what gaps (if any) exist in hardware support.
To get things started I should mention that I was looking at buying
one of either IBM/Lenovo, Fujitsu, or the British makes Mesh or Acorn
- but I'm not opposed to other suggestions. The system should have, at
minimum:

15.4" WXGA widescreen LCD
60GB HD
AMD64 CPU

At minimum I would like a system where suspend "works" in some fashion
and where I can get online with wireless networking. I have a PC Card
wireless modem which is known to work in Linux and I suspect it will
work in NBSD, so if a given laptop's inbuilt wifi doesn't work it's
not a disaster as long as the pc card slot is supported.

Also, are there any specific issues regarding running NBSD on laptops?

TIA

Jeff

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