Thanks all for their advice so far, to summarize: * Both ATI and Nvidia make linux drivers at various qualities. Nvidia give better performance. ATI have a large quality drop in their linux drivers compared to windows. Intel are just not that good. * Wifi is always tricky, look it up. * HP, Lenovo/IBM and other minor players have been cooperative with linux. Both resell linux for servers.
My own observations are that Lenovo seems the safest bet with the best linux support, especially if you buy a thinkpad. I've really warmed to the HP Pavilion Dv8220ea which has the Nvidia GeForce Go 7400 graphics card, which Nvidia supports under linux. The other thing I was a bit wary of was wireless, this has an Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945 which seems to be a bit touch and go under dapper, but there is a whole sourceforge project dedicated to making it work. Good enough for me. So, that's what I'm going for, HP Pavilion Dv8220ea. I'll be back with how it goes. Duncan -- laptop-testing-team mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team
