It occurred to me that Peter Seebach wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.help:
> In message <445C1D64.9020104@starling.us>, Gan Uesli Starling writes:
>>I'm in need of a new laptop soon and can afford new
>>this time. Who can recommend a make/model on which
>>they run NetBSD and experience no problems with sound,
>>etc?
>
> It's a bit old, but I love my ThinkPad A31p to pieces.

I like mine (Well, it's an A31-sans-p, but who's counting) too; battery life
could've been better though, but that's partially NetBSD's own doing :(