I use SUSE and XP on my laptop, I have a Dell Inspiron 5150, specs are: Lithium Ion Battery (Paid Extra for it) Nvidia GeForce FX GO 5200 (Paid Extra for it) 15 inches 512 RAM 30 GB HD M Pentium 4 3.06GHz DVD-ROM drive Got a free printer with it. Total price: $1,200.00 Not bad for a new laptop with those specs. Works with SUSE out of the box. and I've tested all the way back to 8.2. Slackware and Free BSD don't work on it though for some reason, if you use fdisk topartition you get write errors. Weird. And it's ONLY the console based installations like Slackware and BSD. But SUSE runs great on it, finds all hardware and the sound card works without configuraton and so does th NIC. (I did NOT get wireless, I don't use it, dont want to use it and the only purpose it serves me is wardriving). I think it's a fairly cheap price for all you get, so I'll recommend that or something from IBM. Just don't buy a gateway.