> I can recommend the laptop as a reasonable candidate for Linux. Apart from > the need for proprietary drivers, which is something I blame nVidia for, it > seems to work perfectly.
IME, getting the nVidia driver to work is easy, but keeping the nVidia driver working over time across upgrades is a real PITA, and to the extent that most other machines should also be fully supported, I read what you wrote as "better choose something else" :-) Stefan