Hey Ash

Thanks for the reply.

I actually ended up with a Studio XPS 1645 in the end. It's a core i7-720QM running on a PM55 chipset and funnily enough... is running the Vanilla Kernel.

I am active on the tonymacx86 forums as we speak - check it out: http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=472

There's about 19 pages of interesting reading there. . . Looks like we'll get it going eventually, but for a first hackint0sh this has blown my mind lol.

ellnic.