Alex has a new laptop.
I’m going to resist the urge to take umbrage at the scandalous claims of me being a heathen (one sacrificial goat and vestal virgin and they just won’t stop talking).
No, I’m going to stay quiet. Really.
Alex says: “if using a laptop rocks this hard using Windows, I know it’s going to be super-cool with a free OS installed. Can’t wait.”
I give it a week before we start hearing tales of incessant kernel recompiles, software suspend troubles, incomplete support for the hardware, etc.
On a more helpful note … Alex, try vmware. Get shot of the Windows partition entirely, and run it virtually if you ever need it. I manage just fine this way (currently with Virtual PC, but with vmware on a previous machine).
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Actually, no kernel recompiles – even the wireless install was so smooth it automatically hooked me up. Using my kindly neighbours open broadband wireless AP 
As for vmWare – if I was actually interested in running Windows (and, I guess maybe I am a couple of times a year) I possibly would. But, the main reason I need to keep it kicking around is for IBM support, should I need it (my T20 required Windows to be installed so I could get a replacement screen…). Plus, I was kinda scared that any kind of repartitioning would lose the service area, and that would be a potential world of pain. Although, IBM helpfully have a Windows app which burns a backup of the service area to CDs (7 of them!) so I’m feeling a little less paranoid.
And I’m pleased to tell you the sleep and resume support is flawless (including restarting the wireless network properly
. I suspect it is draining more battery than it would under windows, but I need to investigate that.