Experiences with HP, Compaq?

[D. Michael McFarland]

Chris BeHanna <cbehanna at panasas.com> writes:

>     For about that same price, Best Buy has an eMachines laptop w/17"
> widescreen (1280x768) LCD, the same Athlon-M, and the same ATI video
> chip.

Thanks for the pointer.  I've generally avoided eMachines because

>     I have no idea if FreeBSD will run on it.

and I don't want to be the guy to find out it won't.  The last time I
bought a Real Bargain desktop machine, I ended up swapping the
motherboard to get something useful (but, seriously, I'd expect
eMachines to be better than that).

Guess I'd better dig for some detailed specs.

Cheers,
Michael