i don't think it's as drastic as that if you buy a Clarkdale cpu you're good to go
these came out ~2010, they are still modern On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Brad Smith <b...@comstyle.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:00:01PM -0800, patrick keshishian wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Brad Smith <b...@comstyle.com> wrote: >> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 07:36:58AM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:30:54PM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> >> > I was about to buy two thinkpads which are often suggested when the >> >> > OpenBSD laptop question is raised but the 93 in stock have disappeared >> >> > since saturday, aaargh. >> >> > >> >> > There are still core2duos and lesser spec'd systems available which >> >> > has prompted me to ask the question I had pondered on. >> >> > >> >> > Does anyone know what the latest full screen (! widescreen) AMD laptops >> >> > would be that have excellent compatibility with OpenBSD or if 2Ghz is >> >> > the highest spec non core 2 duo and non widescreen reliable laptop >> >> > suitable for OpenBSD available? >> >> > >> >> >> >> If no idea which kind of graphics card the machine that you're >> >> considering has. This is probably the key point. Stay away from nVidia >> >> mobile chipsets and from recent AMD integated graphics. >> > >> > and recent Intel graphics. >> >> so what's left to chose from? :) > > That's the whole point. You're screwed running anything modern (so far). > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean.
