Or at least this one: Mebius PC-SX1-H1.

When I considered purchase of a laptop, this offering from Sharp caught my eye immediately. It's light (3.2lbs), long battery life(5 hr), powered by a Transmeta Crusoe processor, with an excellent screen, and the specification looks perfect for Linux installation. I live in Taiwan and all the laptops I could find didn't seem Liunx-friendly except possibly this one. However, the agency didn't approve of my request to avoid the Microsoft tax, and I couldn't do anything with it because no one sold a laptop without Windows preloaded here.

I thought I made a good deal until finding that my rtl8139 network card didn't work under Linux. It is because Sharp uses ACPI to configure peripheral devices, and no matter how I tried, I could not get it work. The purchase turns out to be a BIG disppointment for me.

So did any one have experience in dealing with ACPI-based laptops, or should we who wants to run Linux exclusively stay away from them?

(PS: I have also tried FreeBSD and knoppix, but both failed, too)