How bout FC6 on a laptop with these specs?
 

Bought my self a fancy new HP laptop , Pavillion dv9005us. I was thinking ablout Dual booting it with the Win Media Center and FC6. I have used FC5 and wasn't too disappointed but I was wondering if anyone has treid the FC6 on a similar system and can tell me whether it is worth it and if so what to look out for.
(SPECS)
Processor Brand: AMD
Processor Class: Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology Processor
Processor Number: TL-50
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz
Mobile Technology: Turion
L2 Cache Size: 2 x 256 KB
Memory Technology: DDR2-SDRAM
Installed Memory: 1 GB
Maximum Memory: 2 GB
Memory Slots Total: 2
Memory Slots Available: 0
Hard Drive Capacity: 100 GB
Drive Controllers: SATA-150
Rotational Speed: 5400 RPM
Optical Drives: LightScribe Double Layer DVD+/-RW SuperMulti Drive:

* Create a DVD Writable at a maximum 8X Write speed
* Other speed specifications are not available from the manufacturer

Additional Drives: LightScribe DL DVD SuperMulti
Sound Support: Digital Audio (16-bit)
Video Chipset Brand: NVIDIA
Video Chipset: GeForce Go 6150
Shared Video RAM (Max): 128 MB
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Display Size: 17.0 in
Display Type: Active Matrix LCD (TFT)
Port Connectors:

* 4 x Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0
* 1 x Audio - Headphone-out with S/PDIF Digital Audio
* 1 x Audio - Stereo Headphone-out
* 1 x Audio - Microphone-in
* 1 x Video - VGA (15-pin)
* 1 x Video - TV-Out (S-Video)
* 1 x RJ-11 Modem
* 1 x RJ-45 Ethernet LAN
* 1 x Notebook Expansion Port 3
* 1 x IEEE-1394 FireWire (4-pin)
* 1 x Consumer IR (Remote Receiver)

Card Slots: 1 x Memory Stick
1 x Memory Stick PRO
1 x Secure Digital(SD)/MMC
1 x xD-Picture Card
1 x ExpressCard/34
1 x ExpressCard/54
Network Support: Ethernet (10/100 Mbps)
Wireless Protocol: 802.11b
802.11g
Modem Speed: 56 Kbps
Input Devices: Keyboard
Remote Control
Touchpad
Number of Batteries: 1
Thanks:D

Should work fine. Only thing I see that will more than likely not work is the cardreader. The video will work once you compile in the latest Nvidia drivers. Modem may or may not. Never checked the details on it. Wireless should work with Ndiswrapper module. There may be a kernel module already or may work with Atheros but depends on the chipset. Worst case would be the Sata controller. But FC6 seems to have the best for Sata detection and should see it and the drive. If not the bios may support changing the sata channel to a legacy IDE and once installed swithc back to Sata mode and boot it. The issue is the installer does not support all known hardware so one may have to build custom boot disc to support hardware if needed. Or get it installed and once installed the kernel is pretty well configured to support about 90% of the stuff the kernel is capiable of.

What you can do is boot with a Knoppix Live Cd and run commands lspci, lsmod, and review files like /etc/fstab, /etc/modprobe.conf, /etc/X11/xorg.conf. All this can help setting up under FC6 if it gets confused as to what it sees during its hardware detection. No one distro is perfect. It may take a couple to learn what stuff is and how it is setup.

Overall I was planning on getting this one but it lacks a PCMCIA slot. I have many pcmcia cards so it is the draw back for me. I do like the storage capacity of the harddrive, The memory size, and the DVD Multidrive. With the DVD multidrive you can insert a DVD-RAM disc and write and delete from it like a hardrive. Have used one for over 6 years and never would give it up.

Brian