Suspend works great on my ThinkPad T61 and OpenSolaris 2008.11, but unfortunately, there still is no hibernate functionality.

And all of those phones you mentioned would not be permitted on the premises. Most uses have a Blackberry phone models w/o built-in cameras.

Agreed. NWAM is ideal for desktop use, but of course, anyone setting up a server will be turning it off among many other custom configuration - as with any server setup.

I use OpenSolaris for development on my ThinkPad T61 laptop and it's an excellent platform and ideal combination. For one required Windows development app (project dependent), I run XP as a VirtualBox VM and it works better and faster than if XP were installed to bare metal. ZFS is really slick. Turning ZFS compression=on means more laptop hard drive space AND faster performance since the HDDs are relatively slow (even my 320GB 7,200 rpm) and now having to read/write less to disk.

Sun's new packaging system, IPS, and the new repositories are growing with software selections and software is as easy to manage as Debian's apt-get.

Anyone here that thinks OpenSolaris will fail obviously hasn't used it. Give it a try and I bet a large portion of you Slashdot Linux zealots will move to OpenSolaris or at least give it the respect it deserves.

The likely target audience to wide deployment of OpenSolaris laptops are probably prohibited from possessing laptops with web cameras built-in. You'd be surprised how many large corporations and government organizations don't allow cameras of any sort on the premises.

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about or have never used OpenSolaris, ZFS, IPS, zones, SMF, or any of the enticing feature OpenSolaris possesses that Linux doesn't have. Besides, if nothing else, Toshiba selling an OpenSolaris laptop might not be the #1 choice for home users, but is at least an interesting alternative to larger corporate customers.

Agreed, especially since decent support will be needed for those less financially or tech savvy.

Although I agree with your sentiment, your use of "linux" is not surprising on Slashdot. However, the US SMB's need an accounting application that is not kernel or platform specific. A good FOSS/GNU accounting application is what's really needed.

True, but CDE is no longer supported on OpenSolaris; which is a much better choice for desktop user than Solaris 10. The upcoming OpenSolaris 2008.11 version, and update to OpenSolaris 2008.05 has many more improvements that make it a viable alternative to GNU/Linux on the desktop or laptop.

Sounds like you've already identified the cause of your problem as "Windows XP and Vista", not Asus!