> And besides, you may know that some of the laptops from those big > companies, are fully linux-compatible. > > > Cheers I can attest to that...I am running an HP pavillion zt1130 laptop on a mix of stable and sid. the only problemn I had at the start was sound and that was solved with the ACPI patch. the only thing is the ESS winmodem but I am not realy worried about that since I have ethernet and a cable modem. Jeremy