As an update, We got a Dell Studio 15 and it's flawless. Everything just worked. We're dual booting win-7 and linux and the whole operation took less than an hour. All drivers were automatically installed right out of the box. Even sound, which I didn't care if it worked or not, works great. The only issue I had at all was laptop specific. The Fn key was by default locked on. A simple bios change (odd place to put it, imho) fixed that right quick.