I have been pretty happy with my eMachines M6805. Linky to an M6810: http://tinyurl.com/9uobm
There are a couple disclaimers to be made - these are refurbished, and very heavy (almost 8 lbs). The Broadcom devil is at work inside these as well (as Caleb said, wireless in Linux requires the ndiswrapper). Further note that I don't have power functions like standby enabled under linux because I am lazy and don't use them that much. So I can't vouch for that. If you can deal with these things, you get a nice laptop with huge specs (Athlon 64 3200+(2.0GHz) / 802.11g Wireless / 15.4-inch WXGA / 512MB DDR / 60GB HDD / CD-RW/DVD Combo) for $1000. These computers have a Radeon 9600, too, which may or may not work nicely, depending how ATI and their drivers feel that day. You even get a copy of WinXP home that you can do something with. On the other hand, $1150 (retail) buys you a 12" ibook with similar specs, way better portability/battery life (I get about 2-2.5 hours on a charge with the eMachines, btw) and a nice OS which you don't have to mess with very much - it will just work (TM). I'm a fan of the Apple laptops, too. Have fun choosing! Nate ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
