I am thinking of buying a laptop to use as a second computer round the house - for my young son to play with, for my wife to check email while I'm working, and very occasional trips away, that sort of thing. What I want, therefore, is something that will run SUSE 9.1 fairly well, probably using XFce4 or ROX as the desktop rather than KDE, I'd guess. It needs to have enough grunt to cope with playing Flash games for my son, and other multimedia tasks, and it requires wireless networking. That being so, what sort of spec am I looking at? The thing is that a new laptop is about GBP650 for a basic model, but even GBP500 seems to buy a very poor second-hand machine by comparison (such as a P3-650, when the GBP650 could get a Celeron 2.4 GHz). Are there any dangers I need to be aware of when buying a laptop on which to run linux? TiA John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Fields of Valour: 2 Norse clans battle on one of 3 different boards