procrastination diagram

Actually, the T510 arrived ages ago, but here's a summary (and a size comparison):

I installed Debian squeeze (with 2.6.32). Sound just worked. Wireless (iwlagn) mostly works (I have some trouble with MIT's (multi-AP) deployment, but there is some chance of pilot error there). X just worked with the free (nv) drivers (but see below). Suspend... mostly didn't work, crashing the ACPI driver on the way down such that it would lose the ACPI interrupt when it came back. "Oh well, I'll bet 2.6.33 will fix it." (Strictly speaking it would resume successfully to text mode, but spew kernel backtraces, and generally seem sad.)

Suspend-to-disk worked (sort of unsurprisingly), but hung on a return to X. (Even if you suspended and returned to the text console, the machine would hang when you switched to the X VT.) Some googling around suggested that the non-free (nvidia) drivers didn't have this problem, and lo, the suggestions were correct. (And no, before you ask, the system shows no sign of exposing any Intel graphics hardware.)

With a SSD, suspend-to-disk is tolerably slow, so I kind of got a working laptop out of it with almost too many pixels (1920x1080, beautiful color, good contrast), although apparently the T60p had more. I'll bet this screen size is cheaper for some strange mass-production reason, though. :-)