Hey Göran, just thought I'd drop you a note.  Always a happy day, the
day of ordering and, even better, taking delivery of, a new ThinkPad.
Just wanted to share my excitement with you because -- you sort of
opened my eyes!

You were totally right about the x220/x230's -- like a dinky stick of
dynamite!  Although I think carbon fiber is a great material for a
laptop as much as a mountain bike, I took a deeper look at the X1 and
found only ULV processor options, no mSATA capability, no battery
options, no upgradeability.  Maybe good for e-reading in a coffee
shop, maybe they should have called it ThinkMac instead? ha!  No
seriously there don't seem to be many high performance ultra-book
sized laptops at all out there.  I'm running big Magma apps, I want
power!  So with fast processor and 256GB mSATA for the OS I spare the
HD bay for a 750GB hybrid SSD drive to handle big apps.  Server power
on the road!

Ok, sorry for rambling but one more thing:  I _really_ struggled with
this choice but in the end I decided to get the heavier/bulkier
multitouch tablet version (X230t).  This is just ultra-cool tech and
once I saw it mostly works in Ubuntu, now I've got to know if it can
increase my input "connection" to Maui apps and other apps too.

Cheers!
  Chris


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Göran Krampe <goran at krampe.se> wrote:
> Hey!
>
>
> On 01/07/2013 04:33 PM, Chris Muller wrote:
>>
>> My dream machine is:
>>
>>
>> http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/x1-carbon-touch/
>
>
> Sliding a bit from Jecel's original request - because I think he was
> shopping for something less expensive - but I have a Lenovo X220 since april
> and I just love it. And it runs Linux perfectly, wrote a bit about it:
>
> http://goran.krampe.se/2012/04/14/going-lenovo/
>
> ...now, since the X230 is out it seems the price of X220 has dropped a bit
> too.
>
> regards, Göran
>
> PS. The IPS panel, the keyboard and the expansion options (memory, battery,
> hdd etc) are probably the major points.
>