When I bought my Thinkpad W510, USB3 had recently come out, and the partially-implemented drivers the distros were shipping caused the machine not to be able to

When I bought my Thinkpad W510, USB3 had recently come out, and the partially-implemented drivers the distros were shipping caused the machine not to be able to sleep. To say that Thinkpad support is equivalent to a reference implementation is overstating matters wildly - although the support is generally pretty damn good.