I have found these websites (http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ and http://www.howtoforge.com/) to be a great source for help on how to overcome some of the problems that may present themselves as you try to get linux up and running on laptop. From my experience the combination of an Intel CPU and chipset combined with an Nvidia videocard will usually yield the highest level of compatibility and performance. Sometimes sound and modems can be an issue on laptops simply because they are often more driven more by software than hardware (anyone remember those winmodems?), but even that has improved greatly in the last couple years. However, I still avoid ATI completely, and that in turn means that I have been staying away from AMD lately as well. Their current level of compatibility does not come close to matching that of Intel and Nvidia.
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