I second Joe's advice.

My wife's Toshiba with all Intel chipset (wireless, video, sound all
Intel) took the Linux install without a hitch.  There was an extra
binary blob to install for the wireless but that was easy.

Alan

Joe Zagar wrote:
> I have had great success with both Toshiba and HP laptops as long as 
> they have Intel chip set including Intel Wireless. They worked with 
> Ubuntu, SUsE, and Fedora 6, right out of the box.
> 
> Joe
> 
> Phillip Waclawski wrote:
>> I had thought I could make it through the hands on tutorial Monday with
>> the old linux laptop I had set up, but the video is basically dead.
>>
>> I would have loved to have waited for a review of the Dell Ubuntu
>> laptops, but that is no longer possible, I leave sunday at 1:00pm, so...
>>
>> I need a laptop that can works with linux. I have a wireless card and
>> ethernet card that I know will work fine, but I need a laptop,
>> preferably with DVD RW  and a decent video card.
>>
>> Someplace like Fry's, PC Club, or even Best Buy if I have to, so long as
>> you know one that will work with a distro such as CentOS (preferred) or
>> Ubuntu.
>>
>> I'd like to keep it in the $1300 or less range (preferably less).
>>
>> Thanks for any help you guys can give me,
>> Phil Waclawski
>>
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