Centrino laptop source?

I'm looking to buy a laptop which is (a) Centrino base for the battery
life, (b) Linux compatible (would I post here else?), (c) available from
a vendor who is likely to be in business in a year, and (d) available
without and o/s installed, for obvious reasons.

The various supported lists seem to omit current machines and install
o/s information.

i will be handing these to a client and I *don't* want to support them
in the hardware sense!
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bill davidsen <[email protected]>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.