Have you considered a Lenovo ThinkPad (the T or R series) ? In my experience pretty much all hardware (including the fingerprint reader) work well. It may be slightly expensive, but my T40 has served me well for a long time now. Regards, Ritesh <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Rahul Sundaram <<a href="mailto:sundaram@fedoraproject.org">sundaram@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">magesh wrote: > hi ppl, > > This is magesh, from chennai > i have planned to buy a laptop... i opt for hp or compaq > but now iam little confused on which system would be linux favourable > > because many of friends were disappointing, of the non-availability of > the drivers and many other problems as far as the laptops are concerned > > so i need feedbacks from people who use hp or compaq notebooks > and iam also confused on which one to go for either hp or compaq... > help me with this friends </div>Use the Fedora live cd and boot once and check if everything works before buying the laptop. Generally speaking, Broadcom wireless (which is rebranded as Dell wireless on Dell systems and requires proprietary non redistributable firmware) and Nvidia (which requires proprietary drivers for 3D acceleration still) are problematic. Atheros or Intel wireless and Intel display would work out of the box. Almost all webcams are supported. Stay away from Creative for sound and you should do ok. Rahul <div><div></div><div class="h5"> _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-india@redhat.com">Fedora-india@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. -- Friedrich Nietzsche