[ltp] Thinking of leaving Thinkpads

[Karsten König]

Am Montag, 29. März 2010 18:30:30 schrieb Timothy Murphy:
> I have two T43's (and a third dead one) and a T23,
> but sadly I'm thinking of looking elsewhere for a new laptop.
> 
> I run Linux (Fedora/KDE) 90% of the time,
> so a simple installation is top priority.
> There seem to be lots of problems installing Linux
> in more recent Thinkpads.
> 
> Any comments?

I've heard lots of different reason to abandon the thinkpad series, but they 
barely revolve around the compability to linux, I have no problem whatsoever 
on my T400, hardware works out of the box, suspend and hibernate work fine on 
openSUSE and Arch (bought Oct. 2008, never had a problem), so going with stock 
Intel platform should be fine.


What you could worry about is the degrading quality of the overall system 
though, but I can't tell about that, my system feels as good as expected.


Karsten