I'm looking for a laptop that will run linux (preferably suse 10) with no problems.
looking for:
512 megs of ram
preferably wide screen
preferably AMD
under 1500 canadian

only reason suse 10 is beacuse it appears to be most user friendly.

I don't know if this laptop is solled in Canada, but you could check out the Samsung R50 II.

I've bought it and Suse10 works flawless on it. Almost everything works. Only he volume control on the keyboard and the whisper control (keyboard) don't work.

i have an ibm T30, 1.6ghz, 512mb ram,30gb hard drive has in built cisco aironet lan and so on.

i've had no probs with any distro. ive used debian sarge which is my current distro. and fedora core 4.
and i've used knoppix,knoppix std,whoppix,phlak and other live distros and all is fine.

and mine is refurbished and ibm certified and i payed $1000au for mine which i got 2 months ago it was made in 2002.

and it is 1,000.00 AUD Australia Dollars = 866.379 CAD Canada Dollars

1.6 amd ghz or 1.6 intel ghz?
it does matter...
do you think i could get that one with a 60 or 80 gig harddrive in vancouver?

I have a Trashiba and i would stay away from them, but i would start looking around these sites and see what the have to offer

http://www.linux-laptop.net/ people talk about there experiances installing linux on there laptops
http://tuxmobil.org/ all about linux on the go

http://www.cyberpowersystem.com/ they make sweet looking gameing systems for cheap

http://global.acer.com/products/notebook/index.htm the TravelMate series are the best ones to buy

GOOD LUCK!

i have a acer aspire 5002 and suse won't register how much battery i have left, and it freezes every once in a while when i click to change the config for the wifi adapter, and its slow compared to windows. so either suse sucks, or this laptop is anti-linux. either way i'm probably gonna stay away from acers....

my laptop is intel p4 1.6ghz.
depends on how much space you need hard drive space u need as to which hard drive u need.

hmm
1.6 intel ghz won't do
maybe i'll just save up and get a nice asus or something.

I have an acer aspire 5002WLCI. I don't know what your expectations are for this thing, but if you need something for work like I did. (Openoffice, Firefox, amaroK, and Mercury are my most used applications...with of course the bash shell being used more than anything) this is a perfect laptop. Wireless doesn't work, the extra buttons dont work and the battery monitor doesn't work...and acpi needs to be disabled on the newer kernels in suse 10.0, but even with these draw backs for 800$ or so you can't go wrong

Mine has an ML-30 Turion processor with 512MB ram and a 60GB hard drive. FWIW

Chado

you must be wanting to do video editing on Linux then i gather?

Because 1.6ghz is fast for Linux including live distros and even win xp with lots of appz open.

lol
i have the exact same lappy right now chado
but i used ndiswrapper for wireless, and wired NIC doesn't work
i'm looking into the battery monitor
whats acpi? i'm not sure if mines disabled or not
the battery monitor not working is a HUGE problem for me because i never know how charged it is.