I am using an X220 and it is working wonderfully. Great battery life. Solid performance compiling large projects like Open JDK. I upgraded the display to IPS for less than $100 in parts on eBay and about ten minutes with a screwdriver.
Thanks, Bryan On Jul 12, 2015, at 5:09 PM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: >> I would suggest x201s for Many reasons. You can find it without hdd on ebay >> for 100usd... + ssd any... but I am not sure about openbsd... with debian >> it just works. > > The x201 works great. > > I used one for about 3 years, and the beatings continued until > everything worked perfectly. > > Mark Kettenis applied the same pressure to the x220. > > And Mike Larkin to the x230. > > But the general rule is that the upper-class Thinkpads work the best, > first of all because their BIOS are written by Team-A at Lenovo, > secondly because we fixed things for ourselves.
