Recently I have purchased Lenovo ThinkPad E530. Unfortunately, I can see a big difference between it and my previous Lenovo laptop, ThinkPad T410. Straight away you notice that they belong to different categories. But then again, as opposed to a budget class E530, the T-series is a business class model (and is therefore appropriately priced) so the comparison would not be fair.

Still, I like it; especially the fact that everything seems to work out of the box on Slackware 14 (still -current at the moment of writing). It appears that the purchase was timed quite well. E530 features the following wifi chip:

The iwlwifi module supporting this chip has been added with kernel 3.2.0 so it looks like the wifi card wouldn’t work out of the box on Slackware 13.37 and older.