Any low-mid laptop should have support for most of the hardware. We just purchased a couple of dell 600's a couple of months back, and everything was supported. Suspend is a different animal: it really depends on the distro more than on the machine (important too). 

check out this site:

http://www.linux-laptop.net/

it has an extensive list of user added laptops that support linux.

- don

----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Rechenmacher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, November 13, 2006 12:13 pm
Subject: laptop for linux
To: [log in to unmask] (Connie Sieh), [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
Cc: [log in to unmask]

> 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
>