I bought a laptop :P
Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 (Santa Rosa!!!) (2,2 Ghz, 800 Mhz, 4MB L2-cache)It's a Dell. A lot of people seem to be negative about them, I never really got why. They let me build my own laptop, they're not very expensive, THEY SUPPORT LINUX, and they make laptops with fancy colors :P (I built mine in Ruby Red).
2.048 MB 667 Mhz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
nVidia Ge Force Go 8600M GT (256MB DDR2 dedicated)
160 GB SATA (5.400 rpm)
Intel Pro wireless 3945
15.4" WSXGA+
Bluetooth 2.0
I ended up buying this one after a long study I made of different brands/models and their capability of running Linux. I found quite a few nice ones, but most of the time I would find articles such as 'X and Y on this laptop don't work in Linux'. The only laptops that seemed to work most of the time were Dells. So there you have it, I configured a Dell Inspiron 1520 - at first I kept it cheap, but in the end I wanted more performance, so it ended up being €1760, whoops :P. I got a €50 discount and free shipping though. Nice.
But (there's always a but), it's been 'in preproduction' ever since August 1. The estimated shipping date is September 3 :(
That's the back-to-school period for ya.

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