> My portable search has brought me to an IBM A30 notebook (the employee > discount helps a lot ;). looks like a pretty sexy laptop, from what I've seen of IBM's A-series. :) wish I had a halfway decent excuse to buy one. > It comes with Win98 (better than adding to XP's > numbers), but I'll want to run Mandrake on it as my primary OS (considering > dual-boot). Does anyone happen to know if I'll be able to run Mandrake on > this machine? I'm particularly wondering if I'll be able to get the ATI > Mobility Radeon up and running OpenGL apps (Quake). try following this thread: http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2001-September/011493.html It looks like you can; tho you may have to get the latest Xfree86 from CVS. (I think there's a new release slated for Real Soon Now, tho). tell us how it goes; or bring it to an installfest. I'd like to see it. :) Carl Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700