[Lilux-help] laptop?

I would like to buy a laptop but I have no clue which one. There's not much I really need from a laptop: a decent screen and keyboard, moderately portable (i.e. 14", 15" or 15,4" screen), 1GB RAM, LAN and WLAN. I'd rather have an Intel or SIS card if it extends battery life, otherwise Nvidia is also OK. Oh yes, and a Swiss keyboard. I'm not sure about the screen, whether it could be glaring or not. The only laptop-specific thing I need is working suspend-to-disk, preferaby with the kernel build-in support and not swsusp2, and I am willing to compile a kernel. The distro will be Slackware 11. I have read that HP has decent Linux support but it's hard to get an up-to-date laptop in Luxemburg. LIS is willing to let me test their laptops but of course I won't be able to spend half a day there and install Linux. My girlfriend is rather fond of her Acer but it runs Windows. Oh yes, I don't mind paying for Windows and not using it. So I guess I am not really difficult, although a Core 2 processor would be nice. Now I am simply afraid that if I buy a laptop, major things like suspend-to-disk will not work reliably. Or that the battery performance is lousy because of a bad processor speed management. Does anybody on the list have a suitable laptop (s)he could recommend?