New laptop

[psykil]

My Thinkpad T61 has served me pretty well for the last couple of years but now it's time for something new. I shopped around a bit but ended up going back to Lenovo and customized a W510. It helped that right when I was trying to make a decision between brands they went on sale (coinciding with the release of Sandy Bridge?) and I got it for half

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Ryan

[anonymous]

Hope you got the 1920x1080 full hd display that is available with W510.
Everything else is not so relevant/important although it makes for very very decent machine up there in a nice 15" box. As an owner of 14" (a Laptop from Lenovo I am talking about, just in case ) 15" is just so much nicer balanced machine ! I really doubt a humanbeing is so capable to multi-task with three-four-five-six? VMs running in that 16G powerhouse...

Again, if you chose to go with their color accurate, stunning Full HD display - very good for you, otherwise, I really suggest you to return it unopened and get the better display.

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Gentoo on W510

[anonymous]

I'm thinking of getting the W510 and running Gentoo on it as well.

With your install of Gentoo, do the following work properly:
- Resume / suspend
- Automagically reacquiring network connections on resume
- Bluetooth (if present in the hardware)
- Two-finger scrolling

Re: Gentoo on W510

[psykil]

Sorry, can't answer any of the above. I never use suspend or bluetooth, and I haven't actually tried using Xorg yet. I'm still just sshing in from the old laptop until I have a weekend to finish copying everything over.

Re: Gentoo on W510

[anonymous]

A headless laptop. Nice :)

[wojuhang]

Great writing! I want you to follow up to this topic!?!