Personally I've been using an HP XE2-DC. Love it. X fine under 3.3.6. Haven't 
built 4.1 on this mashine (yet). APM fine, no tweaking, but hibernate wont work. 
BTW does hibernate work for anyone else? 2 pcmcia slots. Audio uses maestro 3 
chipset, so no native driver. See other mails regarding this chipset and drivers. 
Usual useless winmodem...
Its nice, neat and reliable.

I confess to prefering HP stuff though. Used to work at IBM, nothing wrong with 
their stuff so I'd vote for both. However, I am currently building a really old 
IBM thinkpad with NetBSD for a brick-layer and its a bit of a pain, but works.

Rafal Boni (rafal@mediaone.net) wrote: 
>
>In message <20010815161741.24557.qmail@patheticgeek.net>, you write:
>
>-> I need to buy a laptop for work (my employer is picking up the bill),
>-> and I'm still trying to figure out what to get.  The IBM Thinkpad X
>-> and T series look pretty good to me, but it isn't clear to me that
>-> they are completely supported by NetBSD.  Will the internal Ethernet
>-> and/or 802.11 interfaces work under NetBSD?  I've about given up on modems,
>-> but since I haven't used one in five years, I figure that won't bother
>-> me.  What about audio?
>
>I'll put in another vote for the IBM T-Series ThinkPads.  It's really nice
>machine, the audio, video both work well after some tweaks (power mgmt in
>BIOS to get audio 100% correct, XFree 4.1.0 to get video totally reliable).
>I've got a bottom-of-the-barrel model (no internal NIC, only the WinModem)
>so I can't comment on the internal NIC or wireless, but they are very well
>made (this from people who destroy laptops for a living, like Jason and
>my boss 8-).
>
>--rafal
>
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>Rafal Boni                                                  rafal@mediaone.net
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