laptop

I bought a Thinkpad X220, the latest Thinkpad X series offered by Lenovo.

I'm a Linux user, and I've learnt the hard way not to buy brand new laptops on the market that I plan to run Linux on, as it's usually nothing but trouble.

This time things were *pretty* straightforward. Everything worked, with a few exceptions:

Ethernet

EDIT: the below, which I had hoped was a fix for the issues described, was not sufficient in the end :s

As a result my laptop has been sent off for repairs (it's still under warranty as it's less than a year old). It's getting a replacement part. Hopefully that will be the end of it, and I'll update this again if so to confirm.

A screenshot in time - I've switched to the Awesome Window Manager on my laptop, which is now running Debian Squeeze.