BSD laptop

[Jeff Rollin]

Hi BSD people

First of all, apologies for cross-posting but I'm looking to buy a new
laptop and simultaneously learning to run a flavour of BSD on it. I've some
experience with Linux, so I'm not a total n00b, but I haven't really done
much "in-depth" with any BSD.

I would like to know what laptop vendors/models people recommend for
installing BSD on, and what gaps (if any) exist in hardware support. To get
things started I should mention that I was looking at buying one of either
IBM/Lenovo, Fujitsu, or the British makes Mesh or Acorn - but I'm not
opposed to other suggestions. The system should have, at minimum:

15.4" WXGA widescreen LCD
60GB HD
AMD64 CPU

At minimum I would like a system where suspend "works" in some fashion and
where I can get online with wireless networking. I have a PC Card wireless
modem which is known to work in Linux and I suspect it will work in *BSD, so
if a given laptop's inbuilt wifi doesn't work it's not a disaster as long as
the pc card slot is supported.

Also, are there any specific issues regarding running BSD on laptops?

To minimize cross-posting, please direct all answers to
freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org

advTHANKSance