<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Dave Cross <<a href="mailto:davorg@gmail.com">davorg@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm about to buy a new laptop. And I'd like to buy one that works well with Fedora 9. My current thinking is to go with something from Dell, because they support Ubuntu on some of their laptops - and if something works with Ubuntu then there's a good chance that it can be made to work with Fedora. I'm very tempted by their new Studio range, but they don't (yet) sell them with Ubuntu on so I suspect there might be dragons there. But I thought I'd ask if anyone here had any other suggestions. I'm looking for a light laptop with something like a 12" screen, a 2 Ghz or more processor, 2 Gb of RAM, 300 Gb hard disk, wireless and bluetooth. Working well with Fedora is my primary concern. I'm hoping to spend about Ł800, but could go to Ł1,000 for the right machine. Any suggestions? Or suggestions of better places to go for suggestions? Cheers, Dave... </blockquote></div> I got issued an HP 8510w workstation at work (a bit more high end than your looking at) and everything works. Top level specs: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.4GHz Centrino vPro chipset Intel Wireless works out of the box Bluetooth works Video is Nvidia Quadro 570M (frame buffer driver works ok, but at 1900x1200 scrolling can be painful, nvidia driver from freshrpms works fine) Sound works fine, all media buttons work (volume control, mute, etc) DVD burner works fine with k3b Booted F9 liveusb system fine (used to test the system before installing to disk) Overall a very nice laptop. Richard </div>