Dunno. First, I won't be running Ubuntu; not a big fan. Probably Slackware or maybe Debian.

Second, one of my main reasons for buying a new laptop is to deliver a presentation at an upcoming AIAA conference; about a week from now. It came with Vista (ugh!) with all hardware supported and working, and I need MS Office for the presentation to go precisely as in practice runs; I could make OOo work, but differences in the transitions, etc. make that require extra work tweaking things, so I'm not doing that this time. (You can bet our next paper I present will run in OOo, or something else.)

So I'm not installing XP (more palatable OS, still giving the compatibility I need), even though drivers are said to be available, let alone anything else, until after the conference. Then, I plan to set up for a triple boot: Vista (mainly as a reference to compare hardware functionality), XP/Cygwin (usable OS with necessary compatibility for Mathcad), and (probably; unless something else catches my eye...) Slackware, Slamd64, or Debian, as a generally useful environment.

I might be able to give feedback on that in a month or so, then, but nothing Ubuntu-specific. I did find one thread with a brief Google; some complete newb was working through trying to get stuff working, and it's not entirely clear what was and wasn't working.