http://inatux.com/ lists two computers. Both have AMD APUs with integrated Radeon GPUs, which work either showing a black screen and hanging the system (if KMS is enabled), or with the vesa driver which probably doesn't support the native resolution of the screen (necessary for wide or LCD screens).
The laptop is from HP which whitelists supported wifi cards, so I trust HP's site to list all wifi cards that it might be shipped with. http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstore/html/pdfs/US_CA_English_215_G1_Notebook_data_sheet_Oct_2013.pdf has one vendor matching the "802.11b/a/g/n" from InaTux's site: Broadcom. So nonfree firmware is needed (the other Ralink and Realtek chips also need nonfree firmware). These are "obvious" things that one can find on the Web looking for specific keywords. Someone using the machine might find additional issues e.g. with suspend and resume on non-Windows OSes or other boot firmware bugs. I believe we should never recommend AMD graphics (until some hackers replace both AtomBIOS and the kernel-loaded microcode) nor laptops with wifi not working without nonfree firmware. We should not recommend products shipped with Trisquel preinstalled unless they fully support it.
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