So, I have this new laptop, a Sony PCG-Z505S.  Very nice all in all,
and fairly resonably priced (around US$2.5k).  
(3.5lbs, 1" thick, 12.1" 1024x768 screen, built in fxp ethernet, USB,
...).

NetBSD 1.4 installed with minimal hassles.

A couple interesting notes:

1) the floppy is a USB floppy.  Booting from it (via the bios) works,
but once NetBSD takes over the USB controller, it's game over (I
haven't tried booting a kernel w/o usb support to see if the device is
still there if we don't touch the USB controller..

USB sees the floppy as:

	Jun 29 13:03:19 thunk /netbsd: ugen1: Y-E DATA FlashBuster-U, rev 1.00/1.14, addr 2

2) it's got a "memory stick" port (that's a small formfactor memory
card Sony's been pushing for digital cameras and the like), which
shows up (until disabled in the bios) as wd1 (!); our wd driver gets
upset about the inability to read a disklabel off the unit and spews a
bunch during boot, but that doesn't seem to cause any problems.

3) the modem, alas, appears to be a winmodem:

Rockwell Semiconductor Systems product 0x2005 (miscellaneous communications, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 11 function 0 not configured

4) audio isn't supported by 1.4; it's some sort of neomagic audio chip:

Neomagic product 0x8005 (audio multimedia, revision 0x20) at pci0 dev 8 function 1 not configured

5) the ethernet Just Works (though I haven't tried other than normal
   10baseT yet); however, it seems to always be on, which
   probably isn't good for battery life.

fxp0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+/100B Ethernet
fxp0: interrupting at irq 9
fxp0: Ethernet address 08:00:46:04:39:07
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4
inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

6) the 1.4 X bits just work at 24-bit 1024x768 resolution.

7) [not port-i386-specific..]

It would be really cool if the FTP banner displayed when connecting
to ftp.netbsd.org was narrower by about 4 characters so that it
wouldn't look oddly line-wrapped when seen in the sysinst install
window...

random dmesg output:

NetBSD 1.4 (VAIO) #2: Tue Jun 29 14:39:43 PDT 1999
    wes@thunk:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/VAIO
cpu0: family 6 model 6 step a
cpu0: Intel Pentium II (Celeron) (686-class)
real mem  = 66650112
avail mem = 59985920
using 839 buffers containing 3436544 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o enabled, memory enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: Intel 82443BX Host Bridge/Controller (AGP disabled) (rev. 0x03)
fxp0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+/100B Ethernet
fxp0: interrupting at irq 9
fxp0: Ethernet address 08:00:46:04:39:07
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4
inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0
pcib0: Intel 82371AB PCI-to-ISA Bridge (PIIX4) (rev. 0x02)
pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1: Intel 82371AB IDE controller (PIIX4)
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <IBM-DBCA-206480>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 6194MB, 13424 cyl, 15 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 12685680 sectors
wd0: 32-bits data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
pciide0: secondary channel wired to compatibility mode
pciide0: disabling secondary channel (no drives)
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
uhci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 2: Intel 82371AB USB Host Controller (PIIX4) (rev. 0x01)
uhci0: interrupting at irq 9
uhci0: USB version 1.0
usb0 at uhci0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
Intel 82371AB Power Management Controller (PIIX4) (miscellaneous bridge, revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 7 function 3 not configured
vga1 at pci0 dev 8 function 0: Neomagic product 0x0005 (rev. 0x20)
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
Neomagic product 0x8005 (audio multimedia, revision 0x20) at pci0 dev 8 function 1 not configured
Sony product 0x8009 (Firewire serial bus, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 9 function 0 not configured
Ricoh 5C475 PCI-CardBus bridge (CardBus bridge) at pci0 dev 10 function 0 not configured
Rockwell Semiconductor Systems product 0x2005 (miscellaneous communications, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 11 function 0 not configured
isa0 at pcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com2 at isa0 port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5: ns16550a, working fifo
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0-0x3e1 iomem 0xd0000-0xd3fff: using irq 3
pcic0: controller 0 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has socket A only
pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
apm0 at mainbus0: Power Management spec V1.1
apm0: battery life expectancy: 88%
apm0: A/C state: on
apm0: battery charge state: high charging
apm0: estimated 2h 38m
biomask 4200 netmask 4200 ttymask 528a