[lew89]

The only thing I can share is my experience with Thinkpad E130. I've got it for about 3years and I'm really happy about how it's working with Arch Linux. I remember I had a little problem with installing bootloader (EFI), but now everything's fine except SD card reader (but I've read that there is alternative driver to fix this).

It's totally enough for everything I do: web, movies (OK, very high quality happens to be a problem), music, programming, photo/video editing and even games (Half Life 2, Civilization V and Oblivion are level expected to work very well on high details). I don't know how It would manage with full blown KDE/GNOME desktop though (I prefer terminal+tiling WM). If you don't mind small size (I love it) I recommend it. Really the only thing that doesn't work well is that for some reason shutdown works like reboot so you have to turn of using power button, but who cares If you usualy just swith to the sleep mode.