mtbc | New laptop computer; upgrading OpenBSD

My current Asus laptop computer is now a good many years old. The replacement (cheap Chinese) keyboard is dodgy, the power connector needs soldering again and, perhaps through having lost some screws, the case is starting to come apart. While we are not so wealthy these days, a less powerful laptop is okay because I don't demand much of it anyway. Some tests with putting my current 17.1"-screen laptop some distance from me and still trying to read from it reassure me that a 13.3" screen will be sufficiently comfortable: I will try going down from my 3.2kg behemoth to a 1.2kg Asus Zenbook that is more easily carried around and whose battery lasts for longer. It is reported to need Linux 4.5 for the touchpad to work and I note that Void Linux runs both LibreSSL and runit and is a rolling distribution so I may give that a try.

Incidentally, yesterday I finally got around to upgrading our non-laptops to OpenBSD 5.9, though I embarrassingly omitted a sysmerge on one of them and puzzled why the audio server wasn't starting. The improvement in inteldrm and in Broadwell USB mass storage support is welcome. (My new Zenbook will have Skylake, mind.)