On 2009-08-09, Ali M. <tclwarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > is there brands I should avoid, components and specs that should be > warning signs, I read for example on the OpenBSD site that I should > avoid Nvidia etc ....
you probably want to avoid NVIDIA, and Intel's PowerVR-based GMA 500 on most(all?) Poulsbo-based systems. I'd generally be prepared to swap wireless or use USB (there are some very small USB devices we support which are reported to work very well as wireless clients); some onboard cards will work, others won't - do your research well if you really want to avoid this. > It would be helpful, if you bought a laptop recently that run Openbsd > smoothly to tell me the model i386-laptop.html was partly useful but some people will have a tendency to extrapolate to similar-sounding models. e.g. last laptop I bought was an Eee 901 which works nicely, but some other models with similar numbers have non-supported wireless. (and there is also some chance of laptop makers switching to different parts even within a single model).
