After three years of faithful service, my Thinkpad R51 “notapowerbook” will be retired in favor of a new Thinkpad T61p, which I’ve decided to dub “Krayt.”  I had some trouble deciding what to name this one, originally thinking of “notamacbookpro” to continue the “nota” naming trend, and then my planned Eee PC I want to get down the road could be “notamacbook.”  However, as this is a desktop replacement notebook (and indeed, it’s more powerful than my desktop), I’ve decided to use my existing trend of naming computers after lizards (past computers were Iguana, Chameleon, and Komodo) by naming this one Krayt, after the fictional Krayt Dragons from the Star Wars universe.  So, the Eee will wind up being a smaller lizard, maybe “Anole.”

Anyways, the laptop was born and shipped yesterday, on April 20th.  The specs are as follows:

Lenovo Thinkpad T61p:

• 15.4″ WUXGA (1920×1200) Display
• Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 (2.5GHz, 6MB L2 Cache)
• 4GB DDR2-667 Memory
• 256MB Nvidia Quadro 570M
• 160GB 7200rpm HDD
• DVD+RW
• Intel 4965AGN Wireless (802.11n)
• Integrated Bluetooth
• Integrated Memory Card Reader
• 9 Cell Battery

It should arrive at the end of this week, right as I’m finishing finals for the semester.

It will, of course, run Ubuntu 8.04 LTS