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Edited: === ThinkPad ====
In the thread I link to below,at the end of my post, there are a lot of think pad listed:
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Here's my OpenBSD Thinkpad W520 with Intel Quad Core i7-2760QM @ 2.40GHz, 8GB RAM, and NVIDIA Quadro 1000M with 96 CUDA cores and Optimus Technology. Where I had to work to get Optimus lined out on FreeBSD, OpenBSD handled it with no problem:
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There seem to be quite a few, I have 2 HP laptops, kind of old, 1 is the "pavillion entertainment pc", the other is a larger one, since I have not had to travel for some time now, and both are kind of "put away",
I mean , to get the exact specs I would have to get them out, and check, but any way, I had no problems installing OpenBsd on them, but this was a few years ago as well, 5.4 or 5.7, (don't remember now),...the Pavillion has 6.2 on it.
Did some searches , and find :
Quite a few mention the Thinkpads,
Quote:
OpenBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (5th Gen)
posted to writings on sep 1st, 2017 with tags laptops, nerd, openbsd, and thinkpad, last updated on sep 4th, 2017

ThinkPads have sort of a cult following among OpenBSD developers and users because the hardware is basic and well supported, and the keyboards are great to type on.
Also , I was surprised , but apparently Apple mac, and PowerPC are popular choices with developers:
https://www.openbsd.org/want.html
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We try to spread these types of devices around our development community.

Laptops. These die often enough that as a group our needier developers need help replacing about 2-3 per year.
Apple Mac powerpc equipment.
HP J6750 machines (J6700 is the second best choice).
I also have a Dell Inspiron, and had no problems, OpenBsd "just worked", when I installed it, so I guess that is 100% compatible, ?

Some thing to keep in mind though, especially on newer laptops and even Desktop PS's, if you buy one in a popular store, with MS windows pre-installed, a lot of these are built and designed to be specific to microsoft, and by design they are made to not be compatible with anything except Microsoft products, that does not mean they can not be change and made compatible, but it would make it more difficult.

There is this thread, here on the forum: http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1880
It lists quite a few that seemed to be 100% compatible, others with minor problems that needed to be fixed as well.
For example this one mentions HP:
http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1880#post60860
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My old HP G62 laptop. It has a dual core 2.2 GHz CPU, 4 GB RAM, a 400GB HD. Everything works out of the box on OpenBSD 6.0/amd.
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http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1880#post60662
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myself>> I just installed OpenBsd 6.00 to this HP Pavillion (entertainment pc)
OpenBox WM, and some of the XFCE utilities, it is really working good.
I had been using OpenBsd for some time now, but on a VM, this is the first time
I have installed it on a Laptop, and managed to even get the wifi working,.... actually
it "just worked",... so I am happy about this.
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