My T60 is increasingly held together by scotch tape, and the T510 I ordered isn't supposed to ship until shortly before my birthday (and I seem to have ordered a display option that the official documentation doesn't admit to he existence of), so I picked up a ThinkPad X100e to fill a potential gap and to be lighter than the T60 or the T510.
It's not quite a netbook: it's a little too large, but that's hardly a
bad thing. The keyboard is a little odd, clearly taking design cues
from the weird, flat, semi-unusable Apple keyboards, but it's full-sized, seems to
have nearly as much travel as my T60's keyboard, and has the force
curve that we know and love from IBMLenovo keyboards
(you get clear tactile feedback that you've actuated the switch
before you bottom out). Also, it's not actually flat; the keys have
a subtle curve to them that helps you center your fingers and hands
properly.
Also, unlike netbooks that I've heard of, you can stuff 4G of memory into it (which I of course have).
It doesn't seem to be obviously slow, but I haven't actually benchmarked it against anything. It's at worst not obviously blindingly fast. Windows 7 was quite tolerable performance-wise even before the memory upgrade. (Of course, I nuked Windows 7 from orbit last night, and not just because it decided to uninstall Chrome and putty in a seeming fit of pique.)
Linux support seems a little rough around the edges, although I haven't explored nearly enough. I only just got the wireless working (had to download a tarball from the vendor and build it; I suppose I should package it for Debian now), and haven't tried suspend/resume or X. More later.
