New ThinkPad Guts Bring Intel Core I, DDR4, USB 3 to Cult Laptops
I'm currently on my fifth ThinkPad, so you could say I'm a fan. But I'd like to warn everyone that uses Linux to be careful about buying one.<p>I bought a T540 3 years ago that shipped with a Bay Trail processor. This processor was absolutely unusable on Linux due to this bug (<a href="https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109051</a>). Even setting max cstate to 1 resulted in regular freezes.<p>Not only would Lenovo not accept a return of the laptop, I could not even get them to update their Linux compatibility page to warn other users!<p>To this day:<p>- The cstate bug is not fixed, and running Linux on a Bay Trail processor will cause lockups<p>- Lenovo continues to recommend laptop versions that are flat out broken on Linux (<a href="https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd031426" rel="nofollow">https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd031426</a>)<p>So be careful!