It'd be nice to hear if anyone has experience of the following two laptops. From what I can tell they can both be /made/ to work if you're willing to try hard enough, but I really would like something I can just put Fedora on and not worry about too much. (I'm not going to wait for Dell to get its act together in the UK, and most of the Linux laptop people are too expensive). Criteria: 0. Boots up, no major system disagreements CPU, HD etc. 1. Wireless works no questions. 2. Video works without too much hassle (will install proprietary drivers if I have no choice, 3D accel preferred, Compiz nice but non- essential) 3. Sound Lenovo N100 (0768) http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=4K3D The Lenovo Linux support page seems to list it, but the details it gives don't quite match (the one I'm looking at has Intel GMA950 graphics rather than Nvidia for a start). It also gets a fail on wireless, though I've seen elsewhere this should work. It'd be nice to hear from someone using an Intel 3945ABG chipset. Acer AS5103 http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=4F5Y Wireless is really odd, since they've decided to give it their own branding. Write-ups for similar model numbers mention both Atheros and Broadcom; not sure if these are different drivers for the same chipset or completely different chipsets (one page in particular has the two alongside). Graphics are ATI which I'm a bit wary of. Thanks for any help. -- imalone
