Hi,<br><br>Just thought I'd give you a run-down on what I'm using.<br><br>Compaq Presario B3800 (few years old now).<br><br>1.8Ghz Mobile Pentium<br>1GB RAM<br>80GB HDD<br>DVD-RW<br>ATI Mobility Radeon 9700<br>Wireless and lots of slots for memory cards
<br><br>To date, I've had Ubuntu Dapper, OpenSuSE 10.2 and as of yesterday Fedora Core 6 running on this laptop, all dual-booting with Windows (need it for work).<br><br>Mostly all the hardware is recognised right off the bat. With Ubuntu I've had the wireless working (took a *little* bit of work) and Compiz running fine. OpenSuSE worked great but I couldn't get XGL working so I switched to Fedora Core 6 where I'm hoping AIGLX and Beryl will play nice and I can get nice fancy graphics. As you can see, the hardware issues are minimal and if I was using Linux for the normal everyday stuff it would be fine.
<br><br>Oh, that's right, there is also apparently an issue with the Intel sound on the board that never works straight from install, but can be fixed with alsamixer.<br><br>HTH,<br><br>Josh<br>