On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 11:29 +1200, Chris O'Halloran wrote:

Hello,

I am interested in buying a laptop.  A key requirement would be that
it ran Linux (Kubuntu) smoothly and that all the hardware was
supported, not neccessarily by *open* source drivers as binary drivers would be
okay eg NVIDIA drivers.

I've had no issues with either of the IBM Thinkpads I've owned...
My current laptop (THINKpad R51) runs Ubuntu 7.04 very nicely.
(It always ran Ubuntu straight out of the box.)

Options I am interested in
moderately large screen, nvidia graphics card, intel duo and linux
support camera and wifi.

I don't have the camera, figerprint reader, or anything else.
WIFI, no problem. The graphics card is an Intel chipset.