You might also want to check on your wireless card before picking a distro. The HCL on this site is a good place to start to find out whether you're actually going to have support for your card, and what drivers it will need. But, as previously posted, it's all down to personal preferences - read the reviews linked to before, and also check the sticky's in various forums for pros+cons of each distro. There might also be something under the Tutorials section for what you wish to achieve