I gave my old Compaq Presario laptop to my wife, and I need a new laptop to use for my teaching (I teach Unix, Linux, C, and C++ at a local university) as well as for BLU meetings. My presonal requirements are: Brand: must be HP (or HP/Compaq) OS: SuSE Linux 10.0 or possibly VMWare with SuSE running as the primary OS. Chip: AMD-64 (While I work directly with some Intel people, I want 64-bits on the laptop). Screen size: I prefer 15in or better, but 14in would be ok. Memory - would prefer 1 or 2 GB because I want to be able to run a couple of different distros simultaneously for the courses. I've looked at the following models: L2000, DV8110US, DV5120 and dv5140. I've found Linux reviews of the L2000, but not the DV8* or DV5* models, though the DV8110US from eCost seems to have some very good features. I'm not concerned about installing ndiswrapper for the Broadcom wireless. Many of the HP Compaq n series business notebooks are officially certified by SuSE, but those notebooks tend to be more expensive, but there are a bunch that are available refurbished or excess new. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9