Will a Lenovo T61 work with Linux Mint?

I've been looking around the internet a lot. I want to buy a cheap, old, used laptop to try Linux before putting it on my main machine. Some people say that thinkpads work just fine with Linux, others have problems but everything is just so outdated that I can't find information. Will this kind of a T61 work:

Intel core 2 duo T7300 2x2.0Ghz
2 - 4 GB RAM
160 GB HDD

Is this worth buying?