Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding is the third. -- Marge Piercy
People like either laptops or desktops. I like to work with laptops rather than with desktops. I like Linux too. My first HOWTO was the Linux/IR-HOWTO about infrared support for Linux. My second is this one and my third the Ecology-HOWTO, about some ways to use Linux in an ecology aware manner.
Also I have written some pages about Linux with certain laptops: Olivetti Echos 133 DM (German) (together with Kurt Saetzler), HP OmniBook 800CT, HP OmniBook 3100 (together with Friedhelm Kueck) COMPAQ Armada 1592 DT and COMMODORE C286LT.
During the work with the Laptop-HOWTO I have collected some surveys about laptop related hardware: graphic chips, unofficially supported PCMCIA cards, internal modems and infrared chips and other hardware.
Since I don't own a non-Intel based machine, this guide might not contain all the details for non-Intel systems or may contain inaccuracies. Sorry. You may look up the Linux on Powerbook page by Sergio Brandano.
In May 2000 I have founded the German laptop reseller Xtops.DE, which is specialized on "Laptops and PDAs with Linux" preinstalled.