Suse 10.2 On A Laptop...

Look for Averatec. Not going to vouch for the quality, but they use a lot of standard parts and the office supply stores like Staples, Office Max, Office Depot, etc often have models exclusive to their store (watch the ads) which are not only 100-150 USD below comparable systems but every few weeks or so they run an additional 100-150 USD rebate package which can drive the cost significantly down.

Check all the Linux notebook/laptop forums for good candidates and internals lists, anyhow.

There are a couple of labs that will certify notebooks for versions of linux - I found this out when I was specifying some notebooks and came across the reports. IBM has lots of records out there from the T4x series on SLED9/10. Poke around the net a bit and you'll start getting hits at places like KeyLabs and such. And at worst case, if any Linux distro was run on them that means there's drivers out there somewhere. Even if your distro didn't work out of the box they can be built.

I have 10.2 running on my Sony Vaio PCG-V505BL, the only issue I had getting it on there was getting the Linksys wifi to work...sound worked out of the box, ethernet worked, usb worked... it said firewire was supported and working (no firewire devices to test that with) it even found the sony memory slot and set it up....

I have 10.2 running on my Sony Vaio PCG-V505BL, the only issue I had getting it on there was getting the Linksys wifi to work...sound worked out of the box, ethernet worked, usb worked... it said firewire was supported and working (no firewire devices to test that with) it even found the sony memory slot and set it up....
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Post to the wireless forum
You'll get better help

/Heoff

I have been dealing laptops for over 10 years and i have been running Suse on all of my
systems, the best laptop for suse without any problems and they pretty much configure
themselves is GATEWAY the GZ series and the solo series are the most dependable
and SUSE installs everything on them without any problems what so ever. the most stable
i have is a GZ7330 3.06 gighrtz,1.0 gig of ram 160 gig harddrive and believe me this is
a super fast computer running suse. 3d acceleration for the games , the nice thing is
you will not have to download drivers for this system,SUSE has them all.