Nope his laptop isn't listed as one of the supported/
certified HP laptops. Still I'd recommend in order of 
my personal preference:
1)Mandrake 9.1
2)RedHat 9 (Wow! have you seen the price for the Pro version!?)
3)debian 3
4)gentoo
5)TurboLinux 8

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins 
> 
> HP has just begun offering Mandrake on some of their systems, 
> why not check 
> with them?