Hi- I have a HP zv5000z which works well for my needs using both Linux SUSE 9.0 9.1 amd64 and XP Pro with cygwin. Graphics are well Bupported on 9.1 with Nvida drivers (I haven't tried sound). There is a forum on the zv5000v at http://www.notebookreview.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=713 I have maxed out memory at 2GB. Some complaints: The power supply is too heavy- The SF card reader has stopped working but I can't part with unit long enough to get it fixed. The screen (1680x1050) is nice for office but makes unit too big to conveniently use in coach on airplane. The unit draws too much power using my dc/ac converter and the HP brick power supply to use on airplane. The 80 GB disk (4200 rpm) is a performance dog. If a smaller and lighter (<2.5 kg) amd64 unit comes out I would probably replace this unit. However Sun is supposedly coming out with an operton notebook and I would suffer the size and weight for 4gb of memory. Regards Bob -----Original Message----- From: Len Zaifman [mailto:leonardz@sickkids.ca] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 15:55 To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] amd64 laptop choice would like to replace a 4 year old Sony VAIO with a an AMD64 laptop. What experience is there ? What works?