Re: In the market for a new (old) laptop

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Just spoke with one of my colleagues about  IBM.

x31 is a steal and everything 'works'  He is running Gentoo on his x31.

Don't touch the x41.

Of course x60, "It's a F*****G IBM".  Well he's an old army NCO...

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 at 12:01pm, Johnny Tan wrote

I've been seriously considering the Thinkpad X60s series as my top choice. The specs look great, but I'm trying to find more detailed reviews from an actual user (like you did for the nc4010).

I've got a Z61t, which is somewhat similar (I believe), and love it. I'm running FC6 on it, and just about everything works. Video (intel) worked out of the box (including the stupid 3D desktop effects). The ipw3945 wireless required some tweaking (not much), but works up to and including WPA2. Suspend/resume worked out of the box, but sucked a lot more power than it should -- changing the scripts to unload the USB modules before suspending fixed that. And the SD card reader worked briefly with some kernel versions, but has stopped working again (and I haven't bothered looking into it). Oh, and the integrated webcam has never worked. The fingerprint reader can be made to work, but, again, I haven't bothered.

From a hardware standpoint, the Thinkpads feel very solid. I have a user
with an X60 (running XP), and she loves it. The thing is definitely tiny and light.


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