I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good recommendations by any chance?
With http://tuxmobile.org and http://www.linux-laptop.net/ you can make your mind up.
A fairly good ML is available für Thinkpads: http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
Hope this helps, Flori