This was easy, I choose XP while ordering the laptop for all obvious reasons known to public !!! Only question in my mind was what's other than XP ?
I have been using SuSE for last 8 years and I love it , but it so happened that ubuntu 8.10 was released the day I got the laptop, and also I was waiting for OpenSuSE 11.1 to release.
So I have downloaded the ISO and written in 24x speed, but the installation failed asking me to write the CD with a lower speed.So i choose 16x and installation went smoothly.
To my surprise on the contrary to the details i have gathered from Internet, all hardware was detected and installed perfectly.Of course i had minor glitches i was not able to enable 3D on the Radeon 3470 card in-spite of installing the proprietary drivers.But Graphics worked prettily well out of the box with the maximum resoultion.I was a little worried about the intel 5100 wireless card , but Wireless worked like a charm.
Since i was not able to work on compiz with the Radeon card i decided to using the onboard Intel Chipset and compiz started working well without crash to date.
Using System->Preferences->Appearances to enable Compiz.
My compiz config -Compiz-Config.txt
I was able to install the Compiz Config Manager using the follwing command.
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
once you install the Compiz Manager you can import the config file given in the above link.
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