laptop question

[Rick Franklin]

SUSE 9.0 does not appear to be as user friendly on the laptop as it is 
on the desktop, where there are still a few minor problems with minor 
applications.

On the laptop (Toshiba Tecra / Pent. 600 / 256 RAM), there is a 1 1/2" 
black border around the viewable display, and the speakers play static. 
Have played with display properties and tried to enlarge the display in 
Sax ... no budge. PCMCIA well supported. A few other minor irritations.

Google led to a few pages and posts where Mandrake and Red Hat were 
touted as having better laptop support.  One Mandrake page listed this 
model as supported.

Any thoughts on best distro(s) for laptops? Life is okay on the WIN 98 
side ... just looking for justification to make this unit all Linux.