Oggcast is a damn stupid word. Please kill it with fire.

I have a Sony Vaio 15 inch, SE series. 1080p screen (and really amazing at that), with a chiclet keyboard with numeric keypad. i7, 6Gb RAM, 640Gb disk. It cost about 1500eur. I am really happy with it, but PLEASE try the keyboard first because some people I've talked to seem to think it's a bit "loose" for their tastes. Don't care much about Sony being "evil" or whatever. I like their laptops.

I don't think you really understand what "stable" means.

Windows 95 or Windows 98? And you're evaluating systems almost 20 years later by your limited experience with Sony computers on that? Seriously, quit trolling.

Zero driver support? What were you running, BeOS? As I said, if they're not for you, that's cool. If you think HPs are better quality than Sony, just buy HPs. I'm stating what my own experience is without saying things like "there are a million reasons not to buy Sony". Yes, let's all right the circlejerk train and hate Sony.

I've owned Vaios for years, from Z-series to S-series. I never buy entry-range models. They've all had exceptional build quality, zero problems and amazing display panels. Your mileage may vary, but I've never, ever heard Vaios described as "like shit". Their high-end models are considered among the best laptops you can buy, and priced as such. If they're not good enough for you, just buy a Mac.

Was the Dell running Windows XP?

I bought a 1900x1200 15inch Vaio with an i7 and a 6 series ATI hybrid card and upgraded it to 8Gb RAM and a 7200rpm hybrid 750GB drive. Excellent construction quality, the screen is simply exceptional, and it looks damn amazing in my opinion. The screen panel is semi-flexible plastic (salesperson says it's to absorb minor shocks, whatever), and the main body is made of magnesium. It's a very well-built laptop and runs Linux just fine. It cost me 1500eur, so it's by no means cheap.

Right. Fedora 16 (and 17 so far) was a bug in iwlwifi where 801.11n connections drop down to 1Mbit. There is no solution other than deactivate 801.11n and hope that solves it for you, and that seems to be the accepted solution so far. Other distros don't have this problem, but Fedora does, and I'd like to know how it's a keyboard-chair interface problem. And I'm not even going to go into the whole graphics drivers thing. Unless you run Ubuntu, getting the binary drivers to work means, without any exception, chasing documentation that may or may not be out of date, that may or may not require you to add a couple of repositories, or may or may not require you to compile a kernel module and parse the errors (again, fglrx on Fedora fails and you need to edit the kernel headers to have it compile at all). I've used Linux for a damn long time, and I've gotten to accept things like that, but saying everything works out of the box with "Linux" (ie every distro)? Please, that's just plain wrong. It may work fine for your own usage scenario, I may be perfectly fine with doing what I listed above but "EVERYTHING works out of the box"? Err no. It really does not unless you're lucky, or you're running Ubuntu.

What are you talking about? I have an N9 right here and I love it. The OS is responsive, the messaging is well-integrated and damn fast, it is the PERFECT phone os and trust me I've seen them all! I have no idea where this "half broken" comes from unless you care about shit like videocalls or, I don't know, flash on the default browser. I LOVE the N9 like I've never loved a gadget in my life. I hate Elop with a passion for killing the greatest phone OS ever produced, and for making sure few people will experience something like that.