> I'm looking for a new laptop with a 17" screen and NOT an ATI chipset. ... > Don't care about the [...] 3D-accel under X ... > Ideally, I'd run FreeBSD on it, Ok... if you don't care about accelerated X, why don't you want an nvidia chipset? I was going to say get a 17" MacBookPro - it's dual-core and already runs a FreeBSD derivative... I /think/ they use an Intel GPU, and not an ATI. Old Powerbooks used nVidia. -Yaron --