I am the lucky owner of an IBM T60 ThinkPad. Currently, I run xubuntu on it which is great since it is über fast and has all the conveniences of Debian’s package management system.
There are, however, also some downsides to this machine. Sometimes it gets quite noisy while doing low CPU-intensity stuff, and the battery doesn’t last as nearly long enough.
A good way of getting around these problems, is simply to turn off one of the CPU’s cores when you don’t need it. This in turn makes it possible to turn down the CPU fan a little giving us a quieter and more energy-efficient system.
