Well. Once more I picked up some old equipment at work. This time an x60s. I have recently gotten my hand on a x61s. The x61s is a wonderful machine by most standards, especially as I bought a large 8-cell battery and a 64GB SSD for it. One major disadvantage however, is the fan and power usage: Even ad idle, light websurfing it is so hot that the fan has to spin so fast that it is annoying to listen to.
The switch from x61s to x60s took around 60 seconds: unscrew the screw holding the harddrive into place. Swap the drive. Do the same with the battery. And power on. Ubuntu 11.10 booted just fine. No errors whatsoever. But then again. I had forseen this might happen, so I was already running an 32-bit version of ubuntu 11.10. Had I run an x86_64 version I wouldn’t have been that lucky as the cpu in my x60s is on 32-bit.
So to sum up: The x60s is a teeny weeny bit slower than the x60s, but has marginally better power-envelope, but most importantly is quite a bit more silent to use! I will recommend the x60s over the x61s for the noise alone.