Toshiba U300-NS5 on Ubuntu

I have recently purchased a laptop from Toshiba and I absolutely love this thing.
The first thing I did was boot into Vista and snoop around.
That took about 5 minutes.
Then I took my Ubuntu 7.10 cd and layed down a fresh copy of linux on the hard drive.
Out of the box the display did not work correctly and the sound was not working at all.
Getting the display was kind of a treat since I was fortunate enough to get the new intel x3100 or gma965 chipset in my new machine.
After a little searching around I found that a lot of people were trying different things that may or may have not worked but what I came to was a blog post stating that it was as easy as typing in the terminal 'sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules'.
Sure enough, this is what I needed. After a reboot everything worked perfectly.
My display fit the screen as well as the resolution. Compiz worked right away as well as my sound card.
After a couple of months of enjoying my new machine I decided it was time to get rid of windows and reclaim my hard drive for Ubuntu.
I installed a program called 'remastersys' from the linux mint repositories and it woked great.
I was able to install an exact copy of my system backto the hard drive with the live install cd that I had created with remastersys.
WOW!! That was awesome!
Coming from a windows background, I have never been able to do something like that before.

My overall views of the Laptop and the software that I have mentioned here, five out of five penguins.


Links back to sources:

http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-linux-mint-livecd-with-remastersys
http://www.ubuntu.com/

Update:
I am still using the same laptop. Now running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. and soon to be 9.10.
I am still enjoying the laptop and have no complaints about this hardware.