Hello Len, My experience with an AMD64 laptop began on last July. In France, the choice of AMD64 laptop is not very large : Acer Aspire 15xx, Asus L5D series, Targa Visionnary (only one time in LIDL shops). I bought the Asus L5D : Athlon64 3000+ 1Mo L2, 512 Mo DDR (3200 or 2700, I don't remember), HD 60 Go, video card nVidia gForce 5650 64 Mo, screen SXGA (1400x1050) (very beautiful colors !), chipset nVidia nForce3 Go150, wifi Broadcom, ethernet 10/100/1000, DVD reader/recorder -R/RW, 2 PCMCIA slots, //, serial, 4 usb 2.0, VGA output, SVideo output, ieee1394. A card 3n1 reader. IrDA. Battery : 2 hours. A very good laptop to my mind. On it : WinXP Pro (sorry), SuSE 9.0 AMD64 and SuSE 9.1 AMD64 with all updates by SuSE. Between the two SuSE AMD64, the 9.0 is better : the kernel 2.4.21 is "old", the 2.6.5 is too much young. With nVidia chipset and video card, no problem with drivers : they are available on the website of nVidia, for Linux X86_64, and they work fine (up to now; you need only the video driver in fact) : they are not "beta". This is not the case for ATI : the video driver 64 bits is not available at this moment So do choose an AMD64 laptop with nVidia chipsets ! Which does not work : PC card, wifi, card 3n1 reader. For wifi : no driver 64 bits (by Broadcom or by other people of open source; for 32 bits linux : the windows driver can be use). For PCMCIA : there is a bug in the kernels 2.4.21 and 2.6.5; the problem should be solved with kernel 2.6.8 of the next SuSE 9.2. For card 3n1 reader : in the future .... About USB 2.0 memory stick : it does not work the SuSE 9.1 (the stick : HyperDrive 256 Mo USB 2.0), no problem with SuSE 9.0. I use an ADSL modem on ethernet port : OK. DVD or CD burning : OK with K3B.. Video : OK. Sound : OK (without nVidia driver). Not yet tested : IrDA, //, serial, ieee1394, S-Video output, VGA output but all should work. Ah, about the internal modem : this is a new Conexant chip. The driver 64 bits is not avaible, only a 32 bits one on the Linuxant website. Ask me more info if you need Regards Pascal NB : the price : 1750 euros in Paris on July, now 1680 euros ================== would like to replace a 4 year old Sony VAIO with a an AMD64 laptop. What experience is there ? What works? I looked at the AcerFerrari 3400 which looks good, except for the broadcom networking (both the 10/100/1000 RJ45 and the wireless are broadcom ) which I hear doesn't work well with OpenBSD. How does this work on linux?? I can also look at a more customised system below Both laptops are based on: VIA K8T800+VT8235CE chipset: Should I comnsider any other lamd64 laptops? The laptop will be a dual boot OpenBSD 3.6 / Suse Linux 9.1 (and hopefully no windows) Customised solution: EUROCOM D400K PYTHON Summary Base System 15-inch XGA (1024-by-768 pixels) Wireless WLAN 802.11b/g WLAN; internal miniPCI; Intel® PRO Wireless 2200 Processor 3200+ AMD Athlon64 Mobile; 62W; 754-pin; 1MB cache Memory 1024MB (2x512MB) DDR333 PC2700 200pin - 1 SODIMM Video Module 64MB ATi Mobility Radeon 9700 Hard Drive 60GB (2.5'') 7,200rpm w/8MB cache Internal Card Reader 3-in-1 Card Reader (SD/MS/MMC) Optical Drive 4x Slot Super DVD Multi Drive (DVD-RAM/+RW/-RW; CD-RW; DVD/CD-ROM) with Software or System 17-inch Wide-Screen UltraBright WSXGA+ (1680-by-1050 pixels) - EUROCOM D470K PYTHON Wireless WLAN 802.11b/g WLAN; internal miniPCI; Intel® PRO Wireless 2200 Bluetooth Module Processor 3200+ AMD Athlon64 Mobile; 62W; 754-pin; 1MB cache Memory 1GB (2x 512MB) DDR333 PC2700 200pin - 2 SODIMM Hard Drive 60GB (2.5'') 7,200rpm w/8MB cache Operating System Keyboard (Language) Keyboard - U.S. English Internal Card Reader 4-in-1 Card Reader (SD/MS/MMC/MS-Pro) Optical Drive 4x Slot Super DVD Multi Drive (DVD-RAM/+RW/-RW; CD-RW; DVD/CD-ROM) with Software