[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I have not tried this on any Laptops...but this is a very user friendly distro and has some very nice features.

Any word on how it works with home wireless connections?

I'd drop my Mepis for Mint if it is better at handling wifi.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There is an excelent article in the latest Linux Magazine...Jan 2008...in the section Ask Klaus (Knopper ) where he talks about the various problems with laptops...and they are many....

Some guy had bought a new HP dv 9549 laptop...had trouble with the graphics with Ubuntu 7.04 then he got the wireless working using https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs

So you might look there

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

A more specific resource:

MintWifi