Lets see - how about a Dell notebook with AMD and user-friendly Linux OS? That I would consider. Especially at the price it *should* be for those modifications...

But meatwad is right, Dell's Support for home consumers is terrible, if emails from friends who have them is anything to go by. Meanwhile, the addition of a Canadian Support Centre in Edmonton (paying an embarrassing low rate of pay) is hardly going to encourage users if Dell doesn't get it right...

I'm hearing interesting things about Avaratec right now (who use AMD, by the way) but they are still too small, too niche for me to trust just yet...