[dmacvicar]

I love my X220 (work laptop). I use it as my main machine at work with the dock and two monitors. It is fast, responsive and very portable and the Intel graphics just work on Linux.

But I have a T410 at home and I am not very happy with it. The dock is unstable, it disconnects, USB dies. The stupid dock blocks the fan, and you do anything cpu intensive and it end shutting the system down because of temperature. The NVIDIA graphics never worked reliably with nouveau + dock + suspend (I have to use the binary driver).

And worse, it is an i7 (x220 is an i5) and it feels so slow compared to the x220.

[davexunit]

Thinkpads seem to have taken a turn for the worse in the series after the x220. I should rephrase my recommendation to "older thinkpads". I don't know what I will use when my x220 is antiquated. I hope there's another hacker friendly laptop on par with it by that time.