[ltp] Any experience with Thinkpad X1?

[linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org]

In your message dated: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:09:59 EDT you said:
 > On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 09:20 -0400, rst@ai.mit.edu wrote:
 > > rst@ai.mit.edu writes:
 > >  > Hi.  I find myself suddenly in the market for a new laptop, and
 > >  > I'm considering the Thinkpad X1.  Has anyone got any experience
 > >  > to report on this machine?  Things I'm curious about are:
 > >  > 
 > >  >  *) Glitches in support for the basics (WiFi, suspend, external video)
 > >  >  *) Trackpad mouse gesture support (or some other way of getting 
 > >  >     three-button mouse equivalence)
 > >  >  *) Battery life
 > > 
 > > Ummm... alternatively, are there other current models that people could
 > > particularly recommend?  (A local acquaintance reports good results with
 > > the T420s --- fairly vanilla install, and the only glitch is that the
 > > microphone doesn't come back after hibernate...)
 > 
 > I haven't yet had the pleasure of using an X1, but I'm pleased to report
 > that the T420 works quite well under Debian stable with two exceptions:
 > 
 > 1) You'll need to install a newer X.org stack from squeeze-backports.
 > 
 > 2) You'll need to run a 3.0.x kernel to avoid hard locks.
 > 
 > Both of those are quite easy to do, though, and apart from that I've had
 > a great time using Linux on my T420.
 > 
 > The T420s should (emphasis on "should") be the same, as the guts of the
 > machine are pretty much identical.
 > 
 > Oh, and avoid Optimus.  It can be beaten into submission on Linux, but
 > unless you absolutely need it it's probably more trouble than it's
 > worth.
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > Rob
 > 
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