I have a recent Thinkpad X201 (got in May) and it required some tweaking to get any kind of graphics (even for the OS installer itself) to work with Lucid Lynx.

I have a recent Thinkpad X201 (got in May) and it required some tweaking to get any kind of graphics (even for the OS installer itself) to work with Lucid Lynx. Some features still don't work as well as they do under Windows 7 on the same machine, mostly in power management department: - Battery life is not as good (4 hours max) - Fan seems to be on more under Linux - Screen brightness can't be adjusted - Fingerprint scanner doesn't work, but I don't need it anyway Otherwise, the machine is great under Ubuntu: - It's fast and powerful but very light - Easily fits into any bag (12 inch screen) - Quite sturdy construction - 500GB of hard drive space allows me to run any kind of VMs I need - Up to 8GB of RAM - 802.11n networking (works fine with Ubuntu) - All of this for about $1200 Canadian, including taxes (13%) and shipping - it was under a promotion