Running Ubuntu on Lenovo Laptops

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2014-03-27 at 19:05 +1100, Peter Goggin wrote:
> I have four laptops running XP Pro.  Now that support for XP Pro is 
> finishing I am considering whether to go back to using Ubuntu which I 
> used on my old desktops. The Lenovo models are X61s, T400, W500 and 
> X201.  Will they run ubuntu? If so is changing the operating system 
> problem?  I have all of the laptops backed up to external hard drives.

I doubt you'll have any troubles.  I will make two points, just for your
consideration:

First, the next LTS release of Ubuntu, 14.04, will be released next
month.  Since the current stable release, 13.10, only has 4 months of
support left you might do well to wait for the 14.04 release (which will
have 5 years of support).

Second, especially for the lower-end laptops you might consider using
one of the lighter-weight variants of Ubuntu such as Xubuntu:
http://xubuntu.org/


Have fun!