I noticed in the "Suspend to RAM" thread:
  http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=77034
that the Dell Precision M4300 worked well.

I've been looking for a high-end, 17 in. laptop, and decided to get the Dell 
Precision M6300 because it appears to be very similar to the M4300 that's 
reported to work.  Good news:  It works! * but required a little hacking to get 
the wired NIC going.  Details:

The NIC is a Broadcom 5756, which the bge driver in OpenSolaris does not yet 
support.  However, the BCM 5756 appears to be very similar to the BCM 5755, so 
I tried some changes based on that assumption, and the result is a bge driver 
that works on this machine.  See this thread for the code review:  
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=81855

Note that I was also careful to order the machine with the Intel wifi option, 
which is an Intel 4965 WLAN (802.11a/g/n), which is already supported by 
OpenSolaris.

This is a nice, high-end machine for development work, etc.

Gordon
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