Any problems are likely to be I/O driver problems. Look out for strange built-in "winmodems" and strange internal WiFi, but having those built-in is nice. I use a plug-in WiFi card when I need long range and/or an external antenna. My older HP has some drivers from France for the Winmodem that worked on RH 7.6 but not (yet) in RH 9. The internal WiFi wasn't a problem in this case. Most of the other stuff like graphics, storage, etc is usually standard enough. Chuck > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of > slushpupie at gmail.com > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 12:14 PM > To: TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Laptop advice > > > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:55:02 -0600, Patrick McCabe > <patrickm at citilink.com> wrote: > > I am going to be buying a laptop computer soon. I assume it will come > > with XP and I will want to convert it to dual-boot Linux. Will there be > > any problems doing this? I have built dual-boot sytems before but not > > with XP. > > > > Also if anyone really loves (or hates) their laptop I am happy to hear > > recommendations. > > > > I dual boot XP and Debian on my Dell Inspiron 8100 without any issues. > All depends on the hardware, though. Some of the newer Dell's might > have something unexpected. > > Jay > > -- > Jay Kline > http://www.slushpupie.com/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list