I only now realized that a message belonging to this thread was to me only, so the response only went to the originator of that message, not to the list. The meat of that message was
-- B< ---------------------- > [ ... ] Hm. Could be their market segment isn't properly represented in .au then - the machines are apparently from .tw, not the mainland as I think I said in an earlier comment. > [ ... ] No official wiki for that purpose exists, the main info source would be the platform page for amd64 and the man pages. Then again, it's possible http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi could turn up some useful information. I need to submit my new one there. > [ ... ] The main tip is that quite a few developers, possibly even a majority, like ThinkPads a lot. My personal recommendtation would be to stay away from late 2014 to early 2015 ThinkPad models because the units produced during roughly that period came with the mouse buttons integrated in the trackpad, so clicking with anything even approaching precision is simply not possible. Other than that, they're fine machines but I would recommend demanding a close up photograph of the trackpad. And I hear recent models can be had lightly used at attractive prices via ebay and similar. For UEFI and such, for my latest I simply did not change the BIOS defaults away from "Secure Boot" and things just worked. -- B< ---------------------- - Peter -- 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.
