The wireless network card never did work just right. Sometimes it would connect, sometimes not. You’d have to reboot if it didn’t. Ick. I blame this squarely on Broadcom, but that makes this laptop unusable in Linux for my wife. Don’t buy anything from Broadcom, they refuse to support Linux.
Now, to be fair, we only paid $450 for this laptop when it was new, and we didn’t check to see if the hardware was Linux compatible.

Power management totally sucked, too. No matter how you set the settings, either the laptops’ dead every time you open it, or you have to wait for it to come out of hibernation, which takes just a bit longer than booting it from scratch… so you basically end up shutting down the laptop every time you are done with it, instead of just being able to pop it open, use it and then close it.

{sigh}

Apple’s laptops really have me spoiled. Their power management is easily the best of any brand of laptop I’ve ever used.

I need to find a way to get my wife a MacBook, or get myself a new MacBook Pro, so I can give her mine. :-p

So… we put her Windows XP image back on it tonight, after just a month of struggling with it.