[Thinkpad] ThinkPads available with Linux?

[Stuart Biggar]

>[Jon Etkins:]
>
>>Well at least we have confirmation that someone from Lenovo is listening,
>>albeit not for the next week. :)
>
>      That's interesting that Lenovo get to read at least some of what goes on
>here.  I didn't realize that.
>      I am thinking I might need to get a new laptop, and will have to consider
>getting a ThinkPad, even though my previous experience with one did have a few
>problems - largely because they seem to be the only laptops with a TrackPoint,
>and I don't like the ubiquitous TouchPads.  (I don't know if it's odd - but I
>prefer a TrackPoint even to an ordinary mouse on a desktop.  In fact, it's the
>only pointing device I like at all.)
>      I recall reading a year or two back that a ThinkPad with Linux installed
>was available, but haven't seen anything about this since.  Can anyone tell me
>if this is so for Australia, please?  (I probably don't have the ability or
>knowledge to install it myself, so it would be a 
>big help to buy the laptop with
>it already on.)
>      If no-one knows, I wonder if Lenovo could tell me.  I have heard it
>suggested that a ThinkPad with Linux would never be sold, because Microsoft
>would make sure it never happened, and had the ability to make sure it didn't.
>      I might have problems adjusting to Linux 
>(I've mentioned that here before);
>but I'm as certain as I am of anything that I 
>cannot live long-term with Windows.
>
>                          Regards,
>                           Michael Edwards.

Michael,

On the (US) Lenovo page there is a link about Linux and Thinkpad T60p:

http://www.lenovo.com/news/us/en/2006/08/t60p.html

There is also a T60p called Linux ready in the most recent tabook.pdf file
I can find :

2623-8YU Core Duo T2500 2.00 1GB 14.1" SXGA+ 256MB 100G 7200 DVD±RW 

I haven't looked through the entire doc to see if there are others.

I'm running Sun Solaris 10 x86 on a T43p - works quite well with 2 GB of
RAM.  I have not tried Linux as we have Sun workstations running Solaris
so having the same thing on the TP is useful.

Stuart