My new laptop
I just bought a lenovo t410 off of ebay. I think it was used overseas or in Canada, as it has a wimax card and wimax is not very huge in the U.S. (the big isps need to squeeze as much money as possible out of us after all). Anyway, I had an old toshiba satelite p4 (3.2ghz I believe) that I had to put linux on as windows XP ran the fans underneath constantly (fans underneath!? This is what caused the overheat problems on many toshiba models. The brand now goes into my do not buy category along with Honda's and Acura's. But that is another story).
Anyway it is a pretty nice machine, and I would say it is as good as the current Folio's we use at work (9480m) except for no SSD drive. Plus, these seem to stay cooler. It is not as slim as a Folio, so I imagine Folio's slim formfactor is part of the reason Folios running windows 7 seem to get so hot.
I have Debian 7.7 xfce, installed from the live cd.
The only really annoying problem I have is the mouse, and eventually the keyboard freezing to such a degree that I have to do a hard reset. I suspect an irq conflict or some other conflict as it has a button mouse, which I sort of like, but don't really use, a touchpad, which I have gotten better at using as of late, but don't really use, and my logitech wireless mouse, which I use all the time. You can check out my questions for a way to reset the mouse without doing a hard reset as long as you can get to a terminal window.
Anyway it is a pretty nice machine, and I would say it is as good as the current Folio's we use at work (9480m) except for no SSD drive. Plus, these seem to stay cooler. It is not as slim as a Folio, so I imagine Folio's slim formfactor is part of the reason Folios running windows 7 seem to get so hot.
I have Debian 7.7 xfce, installed from the live cd.
The only really annoying problem I have is the mouse, and eventually the keyboard freezing to such a degree that I have to do a hard reset. I suspect an irq conflict or some other conflict as it has a button mouse, which I sort of like, but don't really use, a touchpad, which I have gotten better at using as of late, but don't really use, and my logitech wireless mouse, which I use all the time. You can check out my questions for a way to reset the mouse without doing a hard reset as long as you can get to a terminal window.
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Coincidence! I ordered a refurbished Lenovo T410 last week, due to be delivered today. Read a lot of good reviews of Thinkpads. It's got Windows 7 Pro installed, and I haven't decided yet whether to keep that and dual-boot with Slackware, or to get rid of it.Posted 01-06-2015 at 03:05 AM by brianL 
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I have 2 netbooks that freeze the mouse when the after market power adapter is plugged in.
I have 1 OEM power adapter for a netbook of the same make and model.
Using it. It does not freeze up the mouse.
So to get by. A usb mouse is used when charging the netbooks with the after market power bricks.Posted 01-07-2015 at 05:28 PM by rokytnji
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I read your mouse thread. Unlike yours. When I installed XP on one. To test.
The mouse would freeze the same as in Linux with the after market power adapter plugged.
So mine is a hardware irq imbalance outside of operating systems.Posted 01-07-2015 at 05:32 PM by rokytnji
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I solved this by disabling the touchpad and keyboard button mouse. Annoying when you want to pull out the laptop and go online to check something without a mouse, but what do ya expect for $150? The touchpad buttons don't work anyway.
Posted 03-15-2015 at 12:19 AM by WestCoastSunset
