Hello,

I have decided that 2011 is the year of complete open source for me. I also want to quit smoking....grr again....but anyway.

I bought this laptop I am on about a month ago, it came with Windows. My wife is needing a laptop and I am going to give her this one.

This is a very good laptop. This is a HP with a quad core AMD and 4 gigs of ram and a fingerprint reader and all the bells and whistles a good laptop should come with. The only problem is this has a Broadcom wireless chip and I have to taint the kernel with Broadcoms driver in order to make the wireless work. Not to mention the fingerprint reader don't work under Linux and the k10 module is no longer being developed because the temp sensor in k10 CPUs are strange.

With all this said, I would like a laptop where everything works out the box well. Where everything the system comes with works and I won't have to download no proprietary crap to make the system work.

I plan on doing away with flash and stuff like that (may try gnash or something). Converting my music collection to Ogg (this may take awhile I have over 6k songs).

I paid $649 for this laptop and I am plenty happy with it. Is there anything in this ballpark with a working temp sensor with all these requirement?

I know research is king and I have no problem doing some reading, I just wanted to ask.

Thanks in advance!

If you want a native Linux laptop, two well-reputed vendors (I have not dealt with either one but know folks who have) that specialize in Linux are zareason and System 76.

I have been very happy with my Dell 1545n with factory Ubuntu (I've had good luck with Dells in general), but I don't know whether you can still get factory Linux from Dell. But Dell seems to be a Broadcom shop.

Using the Thinkpad T410 now and everything works fine (maybe except the fingerprint reader).

Anyway, been using Thinkpads all this while (the R and T series) and everything works (in Debian)

Good luck with your new purchase.