Did your X1C6 come with the Microsoft Signature Edition of Win10? I'm not sure. I chose the least expensive option, "Windows 10 Home 64". I immediately replaced the original drive with a brand new one and installed Ubuntu on it. Nothing hindered my installing or running Ubuntu. The sole hardware pr...

Here are a couple of other changes I made, based on my personal preferences. Disable the touchpad - create /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/53-disable-touchpad.conf (and reboot): Section "InputClass" Identifier "Touchpad DISABLE" MatchProduct "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*...

I just came across this old thread of mine, which never got any answers. I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my X1C6 a couple of months ago, and it's working very well. The only significant hardware-related issue I had was trackpoint acceleration - it's nearly unusable in the default installation. Sleeping ...

I have a 6th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon on order, and I plan to run Ubuntu 18.04 on it. I've done a little bit of web research and am aware of some issues, but there are hundreds of pages of information, reporting a variety experiences, at different points in time and with different configurations. Is t...

Thanks for the pointers. If the T450s case is identical to the T440s case, then there are also lots of youtube videos that apply. One follow-on question - there is a foil cover on the drive, which appears to be attached with some kind of adhesive. Swapping this looks like a pain, especially if you e...

I have a T450s on order and plan to swap drives as soon as it arrives and probably add memory some time soon. The most recent ThinkPad I've worked on is an X230. I've heard, anecdotally, that more recent models require a little bit of finesse to open up and have small tabs that are easy to break. If...

just curious: has anyone else tried an OCZ Vertex 2 in an X100e?

if so, how did it go, and did you need to do anything unusual to make it work?

I've used a copule of SSD (a Kingston SSDnow V 64GB and an Intel X25-M G2 160GB) on the X100e with no problem at all. BTW you can just try to format the disk on a differnt machine and then see what happens. Thanks for the info. I think your experiences support the hypothesis that I just had a defec...

Well, I tried installing Linux Maverick, and I get exactly the same behavior: installer detects the drive, happily installs stuff onto it, then when it's time to reboot from the drive, I get "operating system not found". After a bit of googling, I haven't been able to find anyone else with this fail...

BTW, I tried it both with the BIOS sata set to AHCI and with it set to Compatibility. Same behavior in both cases.

I have a new X100e, and I'd like to do a fresh install of Win 7 onto an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD. I used ABRbeta.exe from directedge.us and backed up the factory activation info, and I'm trying to install from an OEM DVD of Win 7 Pro (same version of the OS as the pre-instll that came with the machine). The...

new information: i just tried a borrowed gefen EXT-DVIKVM-241, and it worked perfectly!

i have one day left in my return period for the avocent unit. if a good work-around doesn't emerge, i'm going to RMA it and get a gefen.

i'm hoping somebody has some insight into the following problem: i have T60p, an external 1600x1200 LCD, and an advanced dock. i want to use my internal and external LCDs simultaneously, in an extended-desktop arrangement. i am able to do this successfully, when the LCD is connected directly to the ...

well, i stumbled onto a good work-around. if i "lock" the computer (hit Fn-F2 or ctl-alt-del and choose "lock") before closing the lid, it leaves the display settings alone. the next time i want to use the machine, i just open the lid and run my finger over the fingerprint reader, and i'm back in bu...

Hello. I have an IBM Thinkpad T60 that I have connected to a dock w/ a external monitor connected thru dvi. I currently have the external monitor set as the primary and the laptop as the secondary. Everything works fine untill I close the lid on the laptop. What happens is the screen on the externa...

does costco's "return it any time for any reason" policy apply to this T60? that would be cool.

i'm not up on the performance of these things, but perhaps the express card slot would be of use?

here are some express card eSATA cards:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... tegory=421

couldn't wait 2 wks plus 7 additional wks. x60 tablet was for my son, a college student, who needs his new machine up and running before the new semester starts next week. got a macbook pro instead. very cool machine! first non-windows machine in our family (not counting a linux server) but likely n...

Mounatin Man, could you run me thru the steps to get rid of Client Security Solution. I too still wanted the fingerprint access, but can't/am afraid to start deleting without some guidance. Thanks i think you can do the following: (1) start, control panel, add/remove programs => remove Client Secur...

ThinkPad Client Security Solution (i naively thought this would speed up system boot and logging in after standby. it turned out to be slow as molasses. at boot-up it takes 20 seconds just figuring out whether or not the security chip is present!) when i wrote the above, i didn't realize you could ...

i received my T60p a few days ago. it's true: these laptops have far less bloatware than many other vendors' machines. here's what i've removed: Symantec Client Security, LiveReg, LiveUpdate (replaced with: Comodo, AntiVir, Ad-Aware, Spybot Search&Destroy, SpywareBlaster) Google Toolbar for Internet...

Did they mention anything about being Vista compatible note in my original post, one of the items is "42R8988 SBB MS LABEL ( VISTA CAPABLE )", so i'm sure it's compatible. i'm sure i've seen somewhere on the lenovo website that you can order a vista upgrade for just the cost of shipping. although, ...

i ordered an X60 Tablet on 12/11. "estimated ship date" has been 12/26 since i placed the order. i looked today, and it's been changed to 2/13, a slip of 7 weeks!!! arghhh!!! details of the order (cut from the lenovo order status website) are attached below. currently, the SXGA+ screen is not ordera...

new T60p coming soon. would appreciate any pointers to up-to-date info on removing unwanted bloatware, especially: - a description of what each thing does and why one would want it or not want it. - detailed procedures for removing specific items another family member also has an X60 tablet on order...

buy.com has the XFX 7600GS card on sale for $50 after rebate, using google checkout, until 11/30. do a search here at thinkpads.com for info about the use of this card in the advanced dock. CAVEAT EMPTOR: NOT EVERYBODY HAS BEEN ABLE TO GET IT TO WORK IN THE ADVANCED DOCK. to get to the page at buy.c...

thanks for the clarification.

in a recent thread, someone mentioned that their 15" SXGA+ flexview screen had a small amount of "ghosting" when watching movies. i intend to order a T60 or T60p soon, mostly for "personal productivity," and writing interactive 3D software, but i would like to watch the occasional movie. photo editi...

of your 6 hitachi drives, 5 failed within 2 yrs and the 6th failed within 3 yrs? that's really hard to believe, unless you're using them under some adverse conditions. no modern drive manufacturer has anywhere near that kind of failure rate. in my own case, i have 4 hitachi desktop drives (2 yrs old...

The T60 wides will be announced 11/28. We've pre-ordered with Lenovo and will have stock upon announce. Not a ton of model choices yet, and no WUXGA so far, but it's coming. First models are WXGA and WSXGA. T60P coming in a few months. Do you agree with my sales rep that one of these models will be...

my strategy: configure with the least expensive drive possible. buy the drive i want separately. use partition magic and trueimage to clone the original drive to the new drive. put the original drive in storage. now, if i ever have to send the laptop in for repairs, swap in the original drive. i don...