So, I finally made my choice and went out and got a Thinkpad T42.
It seems to be working fine so far, though I've not tried X11 yet.

However, I'm not at all familiar with any kind of power management, and
I'm wondering what I should be using on this machine. Do I just start
apmd and powerd in rc.conf, and go with the manual pages from there?
Does anybody have any handy scripts or anything like that?

cjs
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