On 07/12/17 12:18, J. Misc. wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I'm here to ask for input on a hardware purchase that I believe seasoned > OpenBSD users could provide some valuable insight into. > > I am looking to purchase a ThinkPad to exclusively run OpenBSD on. The intent > here is to have a dedicated machine to explore and play with OpenBSD, and > eventually promote it as my primary day-to-day workstation.
This sounds similar enough to my own use case that I risk chiming in even if what I end up recommending is not a ThinkPad. I've been on ThinkPads for quite a few years for my personal systems, and my employers have generally supplied me with one for $DAYJOB use too. Then when the time came to replace my (admittedly low end W series) machine in 2014, I ended up going with a local supplier-branded Clevo. This was the period when new ThinkPads came with the mouse buttons integrated in the trackpad so it was not actually possible to click with any precision, and anyway if you could stand not having the trackpoint (aka clitmouse) at hand, good alternative systems were essentially half the price of similarly-specced ThinkPads. I've just replaced that 2014-vintage one -- due to some mishap during flights to and from the last BSDCan some really annoying cracks appeared in the glass covering the display -- and I repaced it with the one I'm typing on now, a aluminium-body model from the same supplier. It's the system I write about in http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2017/07/openbsd-and-modern-laptop.html and appears robust enough for the requirements you describe. The article has links to the manufacturer and my local source, more likely than not there's an outfit that sells similar own-branded systems in your country. I still occasionally miss the trackpoint, but then my typical work is not too mouse-intensive. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
