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The two big hurdles are Wifi cards and Win-Modems. Modems are kinda non-issue these days, but for me (and that's my peosrnal oppinion) a laptop without wireless card is somewhat useless.I had good luck with my trusty old, external Linksys WPC54G v.1.2 card. It is not supported natively, but I was able to get it working with ndiswrapper. With the newer versions of nidswrapper I was actually even able to get WEP support.Side note is that the ndiswrapper makes it difficult for me to use wireless sniffer tools like kismet because of the limited range of supported features.The only other issue I had was with the 3D support in my Radeon Mobile card but that's probably because I never bothered installing the proprietary binary drivers.Btw, I bought and configured a HP tablet last week for my boss. It came with XP on it so I'm guessing not all the vendors are 100% switched to Vista OEM's. Or maybe this is because Vista doesn't have a working tablet support yet :P a0|a0 http://rnvkzhj.com [url=http://jwyebkv.com]jwyebkv[/url] [link=http://sbyqukuo.com]sbyqukuo[/link]

Wikke, this happens <a href="http://ibwuybusa.com">besacue</a> Wifi card vendors do not release specifications of their products to the public, and do not offer linux compatible drivers. There is only so much community can do, but if the vendor chooses not to support a segment of their market there is not much that can be done.There are hacks designed to get around that for example the ndiswrapper package which acts as a wrapper around windows specific drivers and allows your OS to communicate with the device. It is not perfect, and it doesn't always work with the more obscure cards but it is a solution.Wireless is a big problem for linux community right now, the same way winmodems were just few years ago. This is why I always recommend that people start their journey with Linux by installing it on a desktop system with a typical office setup (ie. broadband connection, and standard video and sound cards without 3d acceleration). On a system like that you are almost guaranteed to have nearly everything working out of the box.Laptops are tricky <a href="http://ibwuybusa.com">besacue</a> they often contain proprietary hardware unique to the vendor (with dell this is usually not a problem), unsupported network cards and etc..Sorry you had a bad experience with it but I recommend you try it again.Here is the thing though comparing linux to windows is like comparing apples and oranges. Both are fruits, and both are round, but they do not really look or taste the same. Learning a new OS is kinda like having a new girlfriend. She is never going to be the same as your ex but it doesn't mean she won't be interesting, amazing and of course annoying in her own unique ways.Fortunately, unlike girlfriends, operating systems don't mind if you dual boot them. :mrgreen: a0|a0

I've thrown satcrched CDs DVDs in this thing that I thought were finished. Amazingly it has read everything I have put in it so far. I find it funny that people will spend a ton on some components, and not fork out an extra $10 for a top of the line drive. This drive deserves an easy 5 stars.