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<div>I have had exactly the obverse of your Lenovo experience. The company that I used to work for issued me with three different Lenovo laptops over the years, and all of them worked flawlessly - with only one issue: the old wi-fi problem. This used to have to be overcome by use of the Windows driver, but more recently, the drivers haven't been any trouble. </div><div>I used several different distributions over the years - Mandrake, Suse, Ubuntu, Mint, even PCLinuxOS - and had no problems at all. </div><div><br></div><div>Chris </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Samsung device</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Paul Hewlett <phewlett76@gmail.com> <br>Date: 04/11/2015 08:06 (GMT+00:00) <br>To: The mailing list for the Greater London Linux User Group <gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk> <br>Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Seemingly Simple Question <br><br><p dir="ltr">I have a thinkpad w530 at work and it is probably the worst laptop for Linux(Ubuntu) that I have ever used. Rebooting is only successful about half the time. </p>
<p dir="ltr">For my personal use I bought a dell xps15 after reading that dell installed Ubuntu for internal use... Everything works and I have had no trouble with it at all.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I would never use lenovo for Linux ... But YMMV</p>
<p dir="ltr">Paul</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 2 Nov 2015 10:58 pm, <<a href="mailto:lists@boywithwings.co.uk">lists@boywithwings.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Heya all,<br>
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I'm planning to get a Thinkpad, possibly after Christmas as my old i5 Macbook Pro is getting a bit rickety.<br>
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I'm thinking either a T410 or X220. The main goal would be a tough laptop that I could use for DJing and Music Production. Unfortunately this means I would have to run Windows on it (URGH UNCLEAN) to run some of the music software I rely. I would probably dual boot with Ubuntu Studio.<br>
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Those two Thinkpads are a great choice as they have Firewire 400, which I need for my current audio interface. All very legacy.<br>
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My question is mainly, which one do people recommend for my use case? I do a lot of lugging equipment around the UK (and Europe), so that would push me towards the X220.<br>
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I've seen the more expensive X220 occasionally for sale with a i7 but the T410 with only an i5. My Macbook has a dual core i5 with 8GB of RAM and 1TB hybrid drive and has a similar form factor to the cheaper T410. Would there be a big performance gap between the i7 X220 and the i5 T410? I will go for an SSD in either and a good trackpad is a must.<br>
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If anyone has any thoughts, preferences or suggestions, they'd be most appreciated!<br>
Leo<br>
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