Thinkpad X40, have run both Ubuntu and Debian on it without major problems (also Windows appears to at least boot on it...)
This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: >Here's what I'm after, with the highest priorities at the top. > > - Working sleep/resume (ie close lid -> sleep, open -> resume) full ACPI support; under Ubuntu close lid just shuts down the display, but this can of course be changed. > - 12 or 14 inch screen 12" > - 1280 pixels or better horizontal resolution No, 1024x768 > - 60G or larger drive I've got a 40G but you can get an 80G option. > - 1Gig ram Yep. > - Ethernet 10/100/1000G intel > - Wireless (source code driver) I have an ATH5212 chip in here, which uses the madwifi driver, so you need to compile from source against Debian kernels, and it comes stock with Ubuntu kernels. I've been feeling massive packet loss with the Ubuntu kernel though, so I've also got a $9 pcmcia prism card which Just Works :) > - USB Yup, 2 ports both bus-powered. > - Decent sound in and out. haven't tried recording, but playback is beautiful. > - External (preferred) CDROM drive. As an option, yep. > - Good battery life > - Availability of external long life battery. I've got the standard 8-cell, which pokes out a little at the back, and the 8-cell expansion, which sits underneath and raises the keyboard slighly ergo-like, and i get up to 8 hours with the pair. They add about 1/3rd of the weight of the machine though, each, by my arm-scales reckoning. > - Firewire Nope. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
