Laptop Support

[JasonTik]

I am buying a new laptop shortly, and want to run Gentoo on it as my primary operating system.

What laptops and/or manufacturers have good hardware support? Durability is a plus, as well as a good video and sound card.

If you can't recommend laptops or manufacturers, can you recommend cards or components that I should look for?

[mbreith]

hda_intel soundcards are a pain to configure. They work well enough once they are set up properly though.
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