Quoting Tait Clarridge <tait at clarridge.ca>: >> How about Thinkpad W500 ? It is a bit expensive, but .. with UBuntu or >> OpenSUSE os. >> >> -- >> Eero > > I can second this, I recently obtained a Thinkpad W500 and it has been > working flawlessly under Fedora 12. I will hazard a guess that the > wireless may not work out of the box in CentOS, but everything else > *should* be fine. > > Plus, with a screen that gets to 1900x1200 I no longer require a second > monitor. > > The one I have has: > > Core2Duo T9900 @ 3.06GHz > 6GB PC3-6500 DDR3 > 320GB 7200 RPM drive > > Fedora 12 is nice because it supports almost everything out of the box, > sounds works 100%, network 100%... etc. The only thing that doesn't work > is the fingerprint reader because fprintd doesn't have support for the > device (I had the same problem on my Toshiba Tecra A10). > > Also, as far as I have read, Fedora 11/12 will be the base for the > upcoming RHEL 6 and therefore CentOS 6.x so theoretically if it works in > F12, you will be alright for the next CentOS release. > Well, centos is not optimal system for laptop due to old drivers and so on. Personally I prefer ubuntu, fedora or opensuse on laptops.. or OSX. -- Eero