ThinkPads, manufactured first by IBM and now by Lenovo, have long been trusted by Linux laptop power users. They range from the ultra-portable Raven X200, weighing 2.7 pounds, to the well-balanced Toucan T500 and W500. If portability is critical to you, then these ThinkPads, with full Linux support for ACPI hibernate-to-disk, are right for you. Also, check out the Raven X200 Tablet with the power of Core 2 Duo and tablet features like handwriting recognition. The portable workstation Raptor W700 has a Quad-core cpu, and includes dual 320GB drives, and 1GB video ram on its Nvidia Quadro FX 3700.