I have this IBM T40 which is generally nice. The keyboard is sturdy, the display is big enough and after a bit of learning got comfortable using the Trackpoint. Naturally I’m running Linux on it, though the distribution is a pretty old RH9 derivative. But is has some additional goodies like completely automatic HD encryption so I’m reluctant to upgrade. (For the curious, Ubuntu is on the top of my candidates list.)
What is giving me headaches is using external HW. A USB mouse plugged in the dock may or may not continue working after docking. I’m guessing suspending does something to the USB ports as well as sometimes nothing works, not even when plugged to the laptop sockets. Using the serial port for console access seems to discard every three or so characters. And today loading the ipw2100 module simply paniced. (During XDevConf it used to work nicely.)
Maybe I should check out a Mac like many others in the office. This thing doesn’t just work
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