Ubuntu inux on old laptop

I had a hard drive crash on my main laptop a few weeks ago and ended up getting a newer laptop with MS Vista x64 on it because as expected the software that came with the laptop would not allow me to reinstall the backup I had made of it on the new hard drive (shitty software backup that came with the laptop). Because of advances I decided it wasn't worth the issues of buying a new copy windows XP OS to put on it. The new laptop as one might expect has become my main workhorse (after some tweeks Vista isn't as awful as I expected).

Now it should be pointed out that I have had much experience with Linux in the past but have never checked out the Ubuntu version, mainly I was working with it as a server OS and didn't want all the stuff that Ubuntu has on it and needed the granularity control that I could get from other distributions. I decided to try Ubuntu for a few different reasons, I hadn't before, I heard it was great on newer laptops, and it had good package management tools. I have had it installed for about a week and just love it. It is so nice to have a mobile Linux option now and it seems just as reliable as my desktop installations of Linux, performing how a computer should... it just works, security updates in the background, no odd things being installed without me saying so, nothing breaking because of an update. If only i could run games and photoshop on this I would be set.