I found there's a single "Con" with this model : It's got very few interfaces, as Ethernet, CDRom & 1 more USB-1 are located in its base, wich is pretty big to carry with you.

Everything else is good or better, like :
+ Every component has been recognized by every Linux distro i put in it
+ very robust : I can keep it with a 100% CPU load for ~3 days without a glinch ! The fan located in its base is something efficient and quiet.
+ Screen is wide enough for X @ 1024x768, and I can play full screen videos at that resolution :)
+ Even with Bios @ "Full speed", autonomy reach ~80 minutes with laptop-mode on, stock kernel, and with original --4years old-- battery !! Let try with Windows on it -lol

That's it : not brillant, it's as loyal as you can dream a laptop should be ; I never had a problem, and use it when I have to show up some "Impress" (or .ppt), pictures or videos @ meetings.

This is my first time trying Linux on a laptop and it has caused its share of frustrations. To be fair, it probably would have been easier I had access to the base station. I installed it on a different computer as the laptop does not have an internal cdrom and then moved it back to the 7200. The video driver that should be used is the trident one. NOT the Savage or S3 driver which you would suspect if you looked at the lspci output above.