once in a time - you get a new computer at work. This time - I got a T61p - developer version. means - Big Memory (4Gb) and big screen (1900x1200) in case you need to develope something, you can have the editor open, and see your results on the same screen. I admit however - that the resolution is very small on that not so big screen.
Anyway - as I'm dealing mostly with linux systems, I decided to put KUbuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 64Bit on it. Needless to say - that the installation went smooth, no problems at all. Everything worked out of the box. Even my UMTS Card from t-mobile. Just had to configure the APN, and voila.
Special keys as the 3 Multimedia keys (audio) are doing what they're supposed to do.
The Only real problem I had - was to get VMWare-Player to use correct keys again. In fact - I was not able to use Delete/End/Home Keys, as all arrow-keys were gone. Seems it has something to do with the new autoconfiguration the Ubuntu X-Server performs. After using my google-Brain-Extension I came accross this Link. Solution 3 worked for me. So - now I have a running machine, and can do run some 3 VMware sessions in parallel without noticing a system slowdown.