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Lenovo tiše prodává linuxové notebooky

1. IBM never helps Linux support in ThinkPads, unless you count the fact
that they never tried to prosecute either Borislav or me for doing it, and
that they did not make the firmware so windows-happy that it would be
impossible to get it to work in Linux... But they have not helped one yota
in the last years (unless they are doing so covertly, which I would not mind
at all, but have no knowledge of).

2. You will not find any other laptop as well supported in Linux right now
AFAIK. But to use it to its fullest, you *will* have to go to
http://thinkwiki.org and tweak things.  No distro ships with a 100% properly
tuned kernel and userland for thinkpads.

3. Lenovo is no better than IBM at Linux support, and they are changing some
stuff in the firmware, so you get the usual flack for buying something new
that is not 100% supported yet if you get a Lenovo thinkpad.  But so far, we
found nothing that is impossible to support (it is just not 100% right yet).

4. The thinkpad user community is the *best* Linux laptop community
currently in existence: it is helpful, it knows a damn great deal, it has
great forums, great mailinglists, and an outstanding wiki.  Make use of it
:-) and be one of us.

5. A *lot* of kernel hackers use thinkpads.  Really.   So new and
development kernels don't stay broken on thinkpads for long.  And a lot of
Debian and Ubuntu developers also do, so these distros *usually* are not too
broken (but they will still not get things 100% right).

You will find why you should not like Lenovo when you try to use their
warranty services *and* you have the absolute worst luck of hitting one of
the dead-laptop-makers depots.

The hardware is good, but not stellar.  For stellar, you need to buy a
hardened laptop, and those are *expensive* and very rare.