I understand, I was just hoping to be able to look at purchasing a new laptop specifically with Haiku in mind.
Thanks Karl for fixing the emuxki driver. Just to let you know. The first listing is Vendor ID with driver name & description.
emuxki driver: Creative Labs (0x1102) SoundBlaster, Audigy 1 & 2 driver
I only point this out because it was grouped together with the other Device ID listings but no matter. Still good.
@mmontalvo
A good idea is to burn LiveCD ISO, boot new laptop from it and check audio & network in Haiku. Video likely will use VESA mode. Karl’s hardware matrix depends on users submitting their information to the database to stay updated. Most network cards should work with FreeBSD layer - still good to check. Audio, may or may not work and something to watch out for.
About a hardware database, would it be possible to get the PC to do the work? If someone could write an app that gathers the user’s hardware configuration information, performs a few tests, and asks to send it over the network to the database, then the developers might be able to get to work on things much more quickly. just an idea.
If someone could write an app that gathers the user's hardware configuration information, performs a few tests, and asks to send it over the network to the database,I think Pieter Panman has already thought about this and has laid some groundwork. Since alpha 1, an app written by him called "Devices", has found it's way into the nightlies. Under the single "Devices" menu item, he has two greyed out options "Report Compatibility" and "Generate System Information" so, I guess he already has this type of functionality in mind. Something like this has been done by Ubuntu linux for some time now by an item called "System Testing" under the "Administration" menu. My guess is that the greatest difficulty will be in making sure that such an app always has a working repository to send the results to.
Alan
Does Haiku have Firewire support? This is essential because a lot of users will be using Haiku for media related work and a lot of professional level hardware devices for media are Firewire based. To not include Firewire on a media and desktop centred OS is a mistake. I use a Firewire interface for sound production and it is essential I use an OS with Firewire capabilities. If Haiku doesn’t have Firewire support I can’t use it.
Can anyone tell me if Firewire is currently supported on Haiku?
An update.
I’ve changed our hardware database to use an ajax voting system. Registered users can now simply click on a checkmark or x to instantly vote up or down whether a hardware listing is supported or not. The more green checkmarks, the more users found this hardware to work on Haiku.
It’s useful, because I added most all the theoretically supported hardware, based on Haiku’s drivers, to the database; although the hardware may not be supported in real life - which is where voting comes in 
You should be happy now since your posting over 400 devs.