Comments on: The X60s: One year later http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Steve http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-48084 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:19:37 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-48084 Your post has inspired me to fix my old R60 which most would throw out or in my case leave gathering dust. Nothing too much wrong with it, just needed a new fan (a ThinkPad will not boot up if it feels the fan isn’t functioning as well as it should). All told it was only $20 to bring back my old friend, which like your X60s has outstanding Linux support. Wonder why I didn’t bother fixing it sooner… I guess laptops are generally marketed as “consumer” devices. ThinkPads especially have outstanding documentation and sources for spare parts.

]]> By: Steve http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-48083 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:15:40 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-48083 Lenovo is a separate company from IBM, IBM sold the computing division to Lenovo some time ago but stayed on to assist in some capacity.

]]> By: Sean Whitton http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-48006 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:07:17 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-48006 Someone once told me that in fact IBM are still manufacturing the ThinkPads, they’re just putting the name Lenovo on them. That could be out of date by now though.

]]> By: Icedearth http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-48002 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:54:38 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-48002 I’m writing this on an X200 running Slackware. I used to have an X60 tablet, it was a brilliant laptop, but the tablet part made the screen appear a bit dull.

The Lenovo X Series laptops are amazing and the keyboards are second to none.

Brilliant blog!

]]> By: Bryan http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-47998 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:42:16 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-47998 While IBM no longer makes the Thinkpad brand, Lenovo is still producing top-quality machines using that name. In fact, I’d go so far as to say the quality of the ThinkPad name hasn’t changed AT ALL.

I can also recommend just about anything by Asus, though stay away from the intel poulsbo chipset, as it’s nothing but problems.

]]> By: ScannerDarkly http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-47995 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:29:55 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-47995 Going to get a new laptop for university. What would you recommend? It would have to be new. I known IBM Thindpads don’t exist anymore. I would like something light, with a good battery life, and great Linux compatibility. I’m a CS major.

]]> By: keithpeter http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-47990 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:29:21 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-47990 I have a T60, the 14 inch big brother of the X60 (no S) and I’ve had to install thinkfan and fiddle a bit to get the fan control set to a sensible level. Otherwise, it sounds like a 60s hovercraft with the fan operating all the time.

How is thermal control on your X60s’s people?

]]> By: MC http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-47985 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:07:29 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-47985 I also bought an used X30 three/four years ago when there were no netbooks and 12in laptops were very expensive. First thing was to rip windows out from it and to install Linux. Like you, that will be my laptop for the next (long) years to come. Cheers!

]]> By: Robert Little http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-47984 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:46:07 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/the-x60s-one-year-later/#comment-47984 I’m writing this on another member of that class (an X41), and have an older X20 as well. Make no mistake, these are wonderful machines.

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