i see... Atoms are not very fast then, thanks. I am also considering the T61 but this is pretty similar to X61 apart from the size and screen resolution ... which affects the battery performance.
Battery performance is the thing you will never be sure when buying used laptops - it all depends of how was the particular item used. T60 is big and heavy, but fast and build without any compromises. X61 should be much lighter and smaller (this is important if you travel with it or work with laptop directly on yur legs). But the drawbacks of X series can be unpleasant if your work rely on good display quality - LCD is not as bright as it should and color reproduction and viewing angle will be probably worse (I've seen T60 and worked a little bit on it, but my reference are T30 vs X31, so I might be all wrong with X61). X series also tend to have agressive CPU powersaving policy, this can be really frustrating when trying to do RT things on batteries... Check out ThinkWiki (.org) for detailed info of what problems with Linux stuff may occur before you buy any ThinkPad. It is like 10% of the problems you will get with any other brand, but you will know all that may happen before you buy anything ;) X series (12') also have slightly smaller keys on keyboard (and no TouchPad, this is like blessing for me).
In fact I was planning to buy MSI Wind for work (Atom based), old X31 was just something like 2x as fast, still cheaper and more reliable.
Cheers, Luke --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
