laptop - any suggestions for a friend of mine?

[Jewel]

On 6/23/05, Steve Tripp <progressivepenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have had many flavors of linux on a few different types of laptops and I
> am wondering if maybe a better question to ask is:
>  What laptop models are not good for linux and Ubuntu specifically?
>  Steve Tripp
> 

Avoid anything with a broadcom-based or atheros wifi card.  I think
that limits you to ones that have the Intel 2100 (b) or Intel 2200
(b/g).  Just about everyone else puts a broadcom chip in their
wireless cards.  Broadcom works somewhat, but you have to load the
windows drivers via ndiswrapper.  Atheros works if you install the
binary drivers from 'restricted'.  I think the two intel cards just
work in hoary.  Anyone had any experience with them?

Jewel