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Any of them.
No really.
SuSe and RH used to be behind on their updates of pcmcia-cs, that was a drag... and RH lingered with no acpi support, well, until FC1. This is no longer the case accross the board, and those are about all that really seperates a laptop from a desktop. Sure, wonky display drivers, but you get the same ones onboard every distro as long as their X is up to date, and that's pretty important to all of them.
SuSe and Mandrake have always liked to add out-of-kernel support for their wireless NICs, bravo for them even if I hate their implementations.
Gentoo goes out of their way to cover everything, as does Debian, but don't run Debian stable on a laptop, at least not a new one... Debian's idea of stable is similar to my idea of really old, and unless the laptop is equally as old you'll have all sorts of pseudo-supported kit.
Debian Testing and Unstable have really jumped ahead in newness lately, they're worth a look.
I've run... Debian, Mandrake, RH, FC, Gentoo, and... of course Slackware, and Open and NetBSD on a number of laptops, all of them worked fine.
Also, about reporting your own post concerned with whether the topic was misplaced/relevant... Really, this is one that can come up multiple times and its doesn't matter as much. A year old thread on this same topic would be a whole lot of different answers. Really a better title would have been: Best distro for laptops in general, as of July of 2004.
Cheers,
Finegan
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