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my x200 takes 20 minutes to POST and the BIOS downgrades fail via both GRUB and windows7. similar experiences litter the lenovo forum. if apple had an issue like this it woulda been frontpaged on every tech site and fixed within a day..

its hard to avoid rebooting because the hardware hardfreezes a couple times a day. also the network slot has a very small whitelist should your card crap out

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Sorry to hear about that - I've got an x200 and it's been rock solid since I got it in november. I think I like it even more than I liked the 12in Aluminum PowerBook that it replaced.

PowerBooks have this modernist minimalist thing going on, but my x200 has a highly evolved, almost organic quality to it. I see tons of powerbooks and Asus/Acer/whatever laptops around, and a ThinkPad is so clunky-looking it's like a geeky cool pair of thick-framed glasses. And it runs Linux really well.

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