I plan to buy a latitude E6400, but would like to know the compatibility of the new E series with linux. I would prefer ubuntu, but debian would as well do fine.

I have done some research on the net but couldn't find many answers.

So here is what I found:

The E6400 is said to come with the Intel® 45 Express-Chipset. I assume it is the GM45 express chipset (tell me if I'm wrong).

On www.linuxdevices.com a news (16/07/2008) report that intel claims compatibility with Red Hat, Red Flag, and SuSE Linux, as well as VxWorks, but there is no info about what compatibility indeed means (are the drivers still to be written?).

There seems to be some issues with the onboard video card Intel GMA X4500HD, see this post (14/08/2008).

On www.phoronix.com, there is a review of the performance of the Intel GMA X4500HD with linux, and a lot of hint to install the needed driver for the G45 express chipset, where I assume that the G45 is the desktop version of the GM45 (tell me if I'm wrong): Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 3 with the Linux 2.6.26 kernel + xf86-video-intel 2.4.0 driver for mode-setting, 2D, and video support + the latest DRM/Mesa code for the OpenGL acceleration.

But I don't know how far this applies to the GM45 chipset.

Anyone having more/other informations?