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. >