Hi,
I was recently asked the question "which laptop should I buy if I want to run 
linux on it?"
I do not have recent experience, but for the laptop I'm currently running 
linux on, I had to and did solve the issues with the
      o  display driver
      o  wireless driver
  and o  suspend to RAM functionality.

With out any recent experience, I can only recommend (but not a _strong_ 
recommendation b/c of lack of recent experience) a laptop with
      o  nvidia graphics
      o  intel wireless

But if anyone out there has purchase a laptop within the last 9 months or so 
and runs linux and can suspend to RAM, please let me know which laptop you 
have.

Thanks,
Ron