Mine is a HP Pavilion 5000, actual model of the laptop version is zv5476, Intel 478 board, 3.4 Northwood processor, with the ATI Radeon 9100 onboard graphics..... Just for info, this one works GREAT. 1.8 Gamers is my current favorite, and it has updated perfectly, using Ultamatics, THANKS THEE, and all the site pros with tips. Other than finding it easiest to install Ultimate Edition on it by putting its hard drive in ANOTHER computer, for initial installation, and then putting the hard drive back in the laptop, it is by far my favorite machine that I own. (I STILL can't believe that that does work, and so easily! Try doing THAT with windblows!) Surprisingly fast for an old laptop, I just keep updating it with a tweak or two here and there. My first Ultimate Edition was 1.4 Gamers, and I have never looked back.
Hehehehe...... By the way, I have re-installed every version of Ultimate actually SEVERAL times on this Laptop, since I have a habit of tinkering with programming and have messed things up many many many times
.. So I think its actually amazing how durable this Ultimate operating system actually is, considering what I have done to it!
By the way, on installing, I have used DaddyX3's advice on doing the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg at some point, to get the graphics right on the money.
It was soooooo easy. Also, the Broadcom driver for wireless is working great.