Thanks to everybody who offered suggestions as what brands work well and which ones don't. I've always had good luck with Dell, but every company has their good days and bad, I guess. The IBM ThinkPad's look good, too. Was also considering HP and Sony. Definite requirement after 2 years of problems with getting a Trident video card to behave with XFree that the video has to be well supported and have working hardware 3D. Of course, being reliable, light, fast, with a big screen and all the toys would be nice too :-)
So... laptop video.. Some of the Dell machines come with Radeon 7500's for video. Is the support for the mobile version of this chip the same as for the 7500 based PCI cards? What other laptop videos have proven themselves to be Linux friendly? Thanks again, V.
