I'd been looking for a lighter alternative to my 3-year-old 15.4" Dell Inspiron for a while. Wanted: something small and cute for ircingtaking notes on lectures that doesn't need a laptop bag for transportation.

Long story short, my Lenovo Thinkpad X60 Tablet from lapstars (with a student discount!) arrived this friday. I'm in love. Let me list the salient features:

• Under 2kg
• 12.1" SXGA+ (1400x1050) tablet display (not a touchscreen, requires a stylus like a drawing tablet)
• Intel Core 2 Duo L7500
• Battery life up to 8h with 8-cell battery

It's charming how everything worked basically out-of-the-box on debian. Power consumption dropped from 17 to under 10 Watts (w/o wireless) just by letting laptop-mode-tools control everything (data from PowerTOP, great tool). The only thing still unconfigured is the integrated fingerprint reader. Thinkwiki has been a great help in all this.

My other machines are named meta, pseudo and omni so the tablet became endo. In related news I made some excellent italian meatballs today, yum.