On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 01:15:31PM +0200, Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote: > I don't need performance, I will use it only for some pdf read and > browsing. Maybe some programming, but not much and not heavy compile > actions for sure. So a P4 1.6 - 2GHz cpu is fine, 512MB of ram and > maybe 40GB hdd. No fancy video card is necessary. Ethernet cooper > interface is mandatory. Good OpenBSD compatibility will be nice. The > screen should be around 15", 17" as a suggestion only. > >From what I saw, Lenovo/IBM X and T models are the first choice. I am > also moved to DELL suite, but I don't have some experience with them.
I think you would be interested in checking out a 15" ThinkPad T60 with a Flexview LCD. I would avoid a 15" T61. The T61 was available with the choice of integrated graphics (Intel - supported well) or discrete (Nvidia - avoid like the plague). I believe the integrated graphics were only available on the 14" models. The larger T60 units use ATI video chips to the best of my knowledge and are much better supported than Nvidia. The quality of the Flexview LCD is also outstanding, which is not an option on a T61 or T500. You should note, none of the newer ThinkPad machines support standby, suspend, or hibernation under OpenBSD. I don't know if that is important to you. The X3x/X4x/R5x/T4x series machines would be the most recent ThinkPads to support that at this time. Each of those series has their own quirks. If you're interested, you could look here[1] and here[2] for more information. [1] http://forum.thinkpads.com/ [2] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
