Best laptop for Linux

[Jamon Camisso]

John McGregor wrote:
> I have an Acer Aspire 5003 (Turion 34, 512 MB ram, 100GB HDD) that runs
> almost flawlessly using MEPIS 6 and I can say with a certainty that it
> runs Linux better that it does Win XP. The special fn+ keys seem to work
> fine and the battery life is about 2.5 hours. The only downsides that I
> have encountered are that the Broadcom 43xx wireless nic required
> ndiswrapper and the modem doesn't seem to work, however I don't really
> have a need for it so I didn't try very hard to make the modem work.

I haven't bothered with my (ASUS) notebook modem, but you could start here with 
the scanModem utility: http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/modemident.php

hwinfo would likely be of considerable use as well.
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