New laptop, new adventures

I recently bid for a laptop on Ebay and I won the auction. The laptop arrived this week, and today was the day I had time set aside to load Ubuntu on it. I'm going to set it up to dual boot with Windows, but I doubt that I'll log into Windows very often. I'll keep it for accessing my Dell Axim pda. I could probably do that from Windows, or even use the SD card reader to transfer files to it, but going to Windows to work with Activesync seems to be the least stressful way at the moment. Maybe PDA plug and play will work flawlessly in Ubuntu, but it's not there yet. I am partitioning the drive roughly 40% Windows and 60% Ubuntu as I write this from my desktop pc. The only minor problem that I anticipate at the moment is that the Broadcom wireless card may not work and I'll need to search for a compatible driver. The laptop is a Compag Presario V2310 AMD Turion 64. I have both the 32 bit and the 64 bit DVDs of Ubuntu, but I will be installing the 32 bit version for now but I plan to try the 64 bit flavour sometime in the future.