I ordered the following from Dell:
Intel(r) Pentium(r)M Processor 725(1.60A GHz/400MHz FSB) 15.4 WSXGA+
1GB DDR SDRAM 2 Dimm
128MB DDR ATI MOBILITY(r) RADEONTM 9600 PROTURBO
60GB Hard Drive at 7200RPM
Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW)
Dell(r) Wireless 1450 Internal Wireless (802.11a/b/g, 54Mbps)
72 WHr Primary Battery
Dell TrueMobile 300 Bluetooth Internal Card
This ends up looking like this from lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
0000:02:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4510 IEEE-1394 Controller
0000:02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g (rev 03)
The only major thing that did not work out of the box under Debian was the broadcom wireless (bolded above). It can be made to work minimally with the ndiswrapper driver. I have not tested ACPI fully, but the power button does, actually, initiate a shutdown if you have the acpid running.

Some tweaking was needed to get the widescreen working under X11. I just had to set:

        HorizSync       28-110
        VertRefresh     43-90
and add the "1680x1050" Display mode:
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1680x1050" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
Sorry for only the rough notes, I'll post more as time goes on (hopefully). I'm probably going to see if I can return the BMC4309 in favor of an orinoco or intel chipset.