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 -- Len Zaifman Systems Manager, Supercomputing Systems Centre for Computational Biology Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ont. M5G 1X8 leonardz@sickkids.ca (416)813-5513