Installed Ubuntu 6.06 about 2 weeks ago. Needed the package 915resolution to get the widescreen display in full 1280 x 800 mode. The only real (but still minor) problem is the sound chip, which is only partially supported. It plays back like it should, but all the sliders I can see are Master volume, PCM, and Capture. No mic/line in. Supposedly this is fixed in ALSA v 1.0.11. Ubuntu has 1.0.10. Does the sound work any better in SUSE?
The 686 SMP kernel seems to use both CPU cores and scales the freq up and down. Suspend and hibernate had issues with WLAN and CPU scaling, but is OK now, after installing Network Manager and adding powernowd to STOP_SERVICES in /etc/default/acpi-support.
The boot-up takes about one minute from power-on to the username prompt in X. That's on a Centrino Duo 1.6 GHz. I can live with that, even more so with suspend working so well.
I don't have any temperature monitor in Windows, but this laptop definitely feels hotter running Windows than Ubuntu, where I get 40 - 45 degrees C at low loads. The fan turns on at 60 degrees and is really quiet, at least compared to my old Dell C800.
The touchpad problem seems to only be in Firefox
I think I saw that on an old laptop which ran Sun Java Desktop System (SUSE 8-based). Must be the horizontal scroll strip along the bottom edge of the touchpad that is interpreted as back/forward.