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Mostly driver-wise, I'd really like Linux or freeBSD running in dualboot.

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Get anything and use Ubuntu. If you have an internet connection, you could get anything easily from their repo!! – vpram86 Mar 6 '10 at 15:08
@Aviator This is not true. I have toshiba satellite u400 currently and hardware is supported pretty badly. (Intell graphics, harware buttons, power saving options) – Kugel Mar 6 '10 at 15:22

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I have had good luck with my thinkpad. I would say it partly comes down to the addon cards. Like my wireless is the intel wireless board. The Nvidia GPUs have fairly good linux support. I think if you went with a business class, middle of the road laptop from most manufacturers it would be fairly painless to get linux of freeBSD working. I would shy away from the ones with the coolest newest features as not enough of them have made it into the hands of the kernel+drivers people if the manufacturer doesn't do it themselves.

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Dell sells notebooks with Ubuntu on them, so getting one of those models should have pretty good Linux support for any distro.

Lenovo shipped the T series of laptop with Suse for a few years (though I believe this is discontinued), but those all have Linux driver support as well.

Finally, Linux Preloaded has a selection of smaller manufacturers that ship their notebooks with Linux on them and guarentee compatibility.

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