I have the T510 running Ubuntu 11.10 beautifully. No hardware problems and
wifi just works too. It was purchased as a win developer's machine so no
special consideration for linux was given.


On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Dennis Kibbe <dennisk@mesacc.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:18 -0700, KevinO wrote:
> > On 08/26/2011 10:16 AM, KevinO wrote:
> > > I went ahead and bought it directly from Lenovo, configured as above
> except with
> > > Win 7 Pro pre-installed, for $1300. I got a little over $100 extra off
> because of
> > > the educational discount.
> > >
> > Oops, I left out one of the discounts. I actually got it for $1174.
> > :-D
>
> Looks like a nice catch Kevin!
>
> One of your other post suggested you might be thinking of swapping out
> the wifi card. Be aware that the ThinkPad BIOS blacklists some cards
> preventing you from using them. As an alternative check rokland.com for
> a USB wifi stick that works with most Linux distros. Handy to have
> around.
>
> Dennis
>
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