On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 20:21 +0100, Gérard Milmeister wrote: > Currently I am looking at Asus and HP-Compaq notebooks. > I don't need wide-screen and high-performance 3d graphics, but > I like to have good build quality I'm using an Asus A3e, and it works really well -- the components seem to be the commodity kind, not the customized kind, which means that Linux will run fine on it. (I am typing this message out on my Asus A3e now.) Also, by commodity, I do not mean cheap and nasty, the stuff Asus puts in seem to be quality components. HTH pascal chong