Having owned several IBM T-series ThinkPads I've always been a fan. The ownership of T-series has spread throughout the troupe of Linux Training instructors here at Guru Labs as lesser laptops have fallen to the wayside.
I've had my current T42p for almost three years now. I've been very happy with it. The build quality is excellent, and it anyone looking at it would never guess it has been used daily for the last three years. The Linux support is superb. The only problem is that the 2.0 Ghz Pentium-m CPU in it doesn't support PAE so Xen in RHEL5/FC6 doesn't work.
Today I found that IBM has posted details on the new Santa Rosa chipset based T61 laptops to be released next month. I plan on picking one up to replace my T42p. Some of the highlights:
* All the benefits of Santa Rosa platform
* LCD roll cage
* Firewire port
* NVIDIA Quadro 140M replaces ATI as high video card option
* Four-in-one media reader
* New Intel 4965AGN WiFi card
More information is available in the Announcement Letter (HTML) or Announcement Letter (PDF)
Very cool... I may pick one up as well, just as soon as I can save up my nickels and dimes. Please continue to blog about your experiences with it, so othat I can follow along and see how well Linux works on it.
-Jared