Hi George I've (just this weekend) got myself the HP Pavilion dv6-3122sa (X86_64). Granted, two days isn't a great deal of testing but thus far, it's proven to be a great piece of kit - Bluetooth seems to work fine, as does WiFi and the ATI card (via non-free drivers which simply requires a choice to use or not use through a pop-up). Unfortunately, I have no HDMI equipment to be able to test the port but at this early stage, I'm perfectly happy. Cheers Bruce <div class="gmail_quote">On 16 January 2011 17:39, George Tripp <<a href="mailto:luggeorge@yahoo.co.uk">luggeorge@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Up to now I've put Ubuntu on ancient PCs I already had. Currently I'm thinking about getting a laptop but don't want to spend my hard earned cash find I've bought something that can't run the operating system I wish to. Looked at a couple of companies which will sell machines without any op system. Pcspecialists: apparently there's a problem that the touchhpad doesn't work with ubuntu Novatech: don't know if their hardware is compatible with ubuntu or not Looked round PC World a few machines there look reasonable spec/price but don't appear on the Ubuntu-certified hardware list. What do other people do? Any advice? -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div>