Acer likes Linux for laptops (c|net)

I was assuming that the laptop vendor would at least provide some mirror capacity to help
overall, or even dedicated mirrors.  That doesn't really change based on the distro, but it
may be they haven't factored in the cost of mirror servers to their business model.  

Also, I heard somewhere that Xandros updates are very slow, maybe once a year for security
updates - if this is true, it's another reason to go with a mainstream distro.  Sorting out
mirror capacity is much easier than sorting out security updates that are lagging massively
behind mainstream distros (and Microsoft).