Help me choose a laptop

[LeifAndersen]

Hello, I am looking for a laptop that will run ubuntu. I would like as few driver issues as possible, however, I can deal with them (I just don't want to).

Currently, my requirements are:
1. Less than $700 (preferably less that $600, I'm willing to pay a little more for good hardware though, so it's not too important for it to be less than $500, but that would be nice).

2. A duel core processor with at least 2 GHz.

3. Preferably an intel graphics card, but that's just because I have had the best experience with them.

4. 802.11g card, n would be nice, but I'm not willing to pay much more for it at this time.

5. Over 15 inch screen.

6. At least 2 GB of ram (I really don't need more, but if it's cheep enough...)

7. Bluetuth would be nice, but again, not a necesity.

8. CD/DVD reader/writer

9. 3 USB ports (although I can live with 2).

10. VGA output, or something that I can convert to VGA.

11. Prefer to have ubuntu pre-installed, although I can live with wiping windows off the machine.

I do NOT need built in microphones, I have a co3u for that. As for the webcam, I would rather have none, than have a really crappy one (which I'm willing to bet most of them are).

Basically, I plan on doing office documents, some coding, some video/audio editing (podcasting, blender, and whatnot), web browsing, and an occasional game. I don't think this is too unreasonable, as I have found some machines that I believe match all of these, but I don't know how well they work with ubuntu. So, do you have any suggestions?

Thank you.

[mikewhatever]

Get a Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed.
http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/notebooks/laptop-inspiron-1545/pd.aspx?refid=laptop-inspiron-1545&s=dhs&cs=19&~oid=us~en~29~linux_2~~

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