Yes, thanks for sharing. I'm going to increase my budget by $800, and get a Lenovo thinkpad X200. Anyone got one of these, what do you think of it?
I found it on amazon for $1100, which I could probably get shipped out here to Australia by a third party, for under au$1300, in total costs. However, Amazon says I will void my manufacturer's warranty if I export it out of the US... Can anyone offer any advice or will I just have to pay Au$2,000 to buy one locally? Thanks! Dan On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 04:52:13PM -0800, Mike Castle wrote: > I strongly recommend Lenovo. In our house, we currently have two T61 > and one T60. Matter of fact, I'm writing this from a Debian based T61 > right now. > > > A story to share about Lenovo. > > A friend of mine was working in the group that was vetting new laptops > for his company (big chip manufacturer). Part of the vetting was > getting demos from the various vendors. > > One question they always asked the vendors was if they could drop the > laptop while is was running. They all said no. Except for the Lenovo > salesman. > > He said, "Sure. Would you like for me to stand on it, too?" > > I've not stood on mine, but I have stepped on it. My toddler has stood on > them. > > > Now, granted, for really good graphics support, we have to use the > closed source NV driver, but I think there may be other options. > > Debian testing has some issues with suspend. The hot keys don't work > for that at the moment, but running s2disk from a root command line > works fine. I believe that Debian stable works though. > > > Good luck! > mrc
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