Ideally, what I want is
this thing (full specs
here). The only thing I don't like about it is the tiny ass hard drives. But having two drives would permit software RAID, which would be kinda sorta nice, cant decide on that yet, or I could make one the OS drive and the other a data drive, or mirror them or something else. No need for dual boot, I plan to get rid of XP/Vista and not look back, so I want a bridge back as I know I will be too tempted to cross that bridge.
But I don't want Windows on it and that lappy has alot of proprietary shit (the fingerprint reader, the stuff on the mouspad, etc) and I am not knowledgeable enough about Linux to try to tackle such a problem. What I really need to do is find someone who is super-knowledgeable about Slackware and get them to do it for a fee, but all of the Linux whores I know are too busy doing thier own shit right now, moving, sucking their boss off for another promotion, etc to be taking on side projects.