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Out of curiosity, does "everything" include seamless external monitor support, sleep on lid-close and working wi-fi?

I am not being flippant at all, however the above constitute the reasons I moved away from a Linux laptop 3 years ago (and, conversely, will not move back until their resolution).

Thus far OSX works for my needs, but it would be great to have an alternative.

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My expirience (x201 Lenovo laptop) with external monitors is excellent. I use 'grandr' for setting up the VGA display and I'm used to work with the maximum resolution supported by the laptop (2048x1536) and works smoothly and fine.

Sleep mode and WiFi works natively too. I have had some problems with hibernate mode but I'm not using anyway. The only think you cannot use under Linux is the fingerprint reader. Everything else works like a charm.

External monitors are still annoying in my experience, and the only problem I had with sleep was the VirtualBox kernel module causing issues (though you can, if you're willing to edit config files, unload it upon suspend, avoiding any issues). Apart from that, I've not had much in the way of issues with my T410 over the past two years.

Joining the chorus of positive feedback, everything (including all things you specified) work out of the box in 12.04 on x61s.

To be fair, there is a known bug in resume from sleep/hibernation, but it is not particular to ThinkPads but to Intel GPUs.

Oh god, you just reminded me of one of my biggest OS X gripes (before the iOS assimilation and lawsuits).... clam shell mode. What a PITA trying to invoke that was.

All of those things work great on my x220.

Yes, all those work on my new T430s. Just be sure not to get a model with NVidia graphics.

All of those things work out of the box on my T420s

haven't tried external monitor, but yes to the other two.

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