I ended up buying a Compaq Presario 1200Z (900mhz Athlon, ATI Rage Mobility, 20gb drive, 128mb RAM, DVD/CD-RW combo drive, 14.1" TFT). Linux installed without any problems. Enabling the 'Athlon' optimizations in the kernel made some things real flaky, though. I'm guessing they haven't been set up to accomodate the Athlon 4 stuff yet. Otherwise, everything works great under Linux. Compaq alternately was helpful in telling me where to get drivers and completely boneheaded with the 'use the restore CD' response to trying to get new drivers after I reinstalled Windows. I eventually gave up and got around them by downloading all the drivers and software for the 1215US (same hardware, retail version) under Windows. -- Michael Vieths Email: Foeclan at Winternet.com Web: http://www.geekbear.net Marc Ohmann wrote: > I just purchased a vaio for that exact purpose. Its not an Athlon but > it is an 800 Duron and I am pretty impressed with the speed. The > reinstal disk will reinstal windows and all the sony apps on the shred > drive. Linux with 802.11b and apm installed without a hitch -- except I > can't run a Duron optimized kernel yet. > > Marc >