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Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by discordance »

djsumdog wrote: post #163
old-gregg wrote: post #155

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When we got accepted into YCombinator back in 2011 (Mailgun), I remember PG looking at our Thinkpads running Linux and asking something along the lines of "what's wrong with you?" , with almost [1] all YC teams using Macbooks. I wonder if it's the Valley culture? There is no way a Macbook can compete with a proper Thinkpad [2] for programmer productivity: the keyboard, the UltraNav, the swappable batteries (you can f…

A lot of developers love their Macs and I don't get it. For me OSX 10.6 was the last decent one. Mission Control is garbage compared to Expose. I got so frustrated with it that I started running Linux in a VM on my Mac as my primary system. I also got into tiling window managers, which killed every going back to Mac/Windows. Today's Dell and Lenovo laptops are good Linux dev machines. I've never had a problem with pu…

Mac OS X 10.6 was great.

I remember when Apple released it saying, 'no new features'. Just bug fixes and speed improvements.

We need one of those again.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by ylk »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #108
Maarten88 wrote: post #80

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Clean Windows 10 install from usb key is under 30 mins nowadays.

Don't even have to clean install from a USB Key as of the Windows 10 Anniversary update from a few months ago. Microsoft now has a tool that downloads the image and installs it for you automatically. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10s...

Iirc they introduced that with Win8

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by zem »

mverwijs wrote: post #11
gtaylor wrote: post #7

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These supposedly run Linux very well, as another option.

As a Linux user in the market for a new laptop: citation needed?

i'm using a 4th gen x1 carbon as my work laptop. it's the machine google settled on as their 2016 linux laptop after doing a bunch of research on current models from various manufacturers, and it's worked perfectly for me. i used the 1st gen for a few years before that, and that was a great experience too. (the 4th gen has worse speakers than the 1st gen, which was kind of weird to realise, but other than that i've been happy with the upgrade too)

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by pascalo »

s_kilk wrote: post #225
techwizrd wrote: post #187

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The Dell XPS 13 is great. It runs Linux very well. The WiFi is excellent. It's got an aluminum chassis. The part where your hands rest is carbon-fiber composite so it isn't cold in the morning. The HiDPI touch screen is incredible, and the performance is pretty amazing. There is a single hinge stretching across most of the laptop for the screen (like the Macbook), unlike the flimsy set of two hinges on most laptops.…

> It runs Linux very well. I've been researching into the XPS series, and online there are plenty of reports of problems with Linux. Can anyone here confirm first-hand that they have an XPS 13/15 that's running Linux flawlessly?

Got the previous generation (9333) running Ubuntu 16.04, no troubles.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by zem »

joshyeager wrote: post #81
lobster_johnson wrote: post #56

As someone who is considering moving from a MacBook Pro 2015 to a Linux laptop, the keyboard and, in particular, the trackpad on PC models are the biggest disappointments. Apple has spent so much effort on the tactility of their laptops, while PC manufacturers still seem to be stuck in an earlier decade. I was a little bit shocked to discover that Thinkpads still have that terrible little mouse nipple, which I hadn't…

Counterpoint: I still use only Thinkpads because they have TrackPoint. For those of us who prefer it, it is vastly superior to trackpads.

i love it, but i wish it were a little less stiff. even turned up to the maximum sensitivity it's giving me rsi twinges.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by gravypod »

jamiesonbecker wrote: post #199
amiga-workbench wrote: post #160

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I don't understand it either, the thing that always gets me is most developers setting up vagrant on their Mac just to get a working environment. Cut the bullshit and just run Linux on the bare metal, your program will run faster, and your laptop battery life won't be halved. You will have to claw my x201 out of my cold dead hands, I've not found a single notebook (even the newer ThinkPads) that are as comfortable to…

I've been a thinkpad user since 386 days, and love my x201 and x220, but I prefer the Dell Rugged Extreme (price notwithstanding) -- feels like an old school bombproof (literally in this case) thinkpad... but I really miss the UltraNav.

If you want there was a P series of thinkpads that are designed to be milspec and IP60 something.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by mynameisvlad »

ylk wrote: post #252
mynameisvlad wrote: post #108

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Don't even have to clean install from a USB Key as of the Windows 10 Anniversary update from a few months ago. Microsoft now has a tool that downloads the image and installs it for you automatically. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10s...

Iirc they introduced that with Win8

Not quite. This tool takes it a step further.

The Win8 Refresh/Reset was based on an image preloaded by the OEM, or installed as part of a Win8 install. If you reset your computer, you'd get all the bloatware back unless you clean installed (which replaces the image).

Win10 Refresh/Reset doesn't have such an image, and just reconstructs a fresh state as part of the process, but then runs a package that the OEM preloads on the computer after resetting.

This tool basically deletes that package so that when you reset, you get a fresh copy without any of that bloatware reinstalled.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by ylk »

faragon wrote: post #57

It is almost perfect. I would love real 4 core i7 with 8MB L3 cache CPU for laptops, instead of the 2 core (4 threads) with 4MB. Edit: 6th generation of mobile Intel CPUs have models with 4 cores and 8MB of L3 cache (i7-6970HQ), using 45W [1]. However, in 7th generation there are only 2-core models [2]. [1] http://ark.intel.com/products/family/88392/6th-Generation-In... [2] http://ark.intel.com/products/family/95544/…

They'll have the 4C model in the T470p

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Classic-ThinkPad-models-...

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by spodek »

rifung wrote: post #236
piker wrote: post #16

Has anyone installed Linux on this machine? If so, how has your experience been with respect to driver support, etc.? Thanks in advance.

I have a 4th gen X1 Carbon with Ubuntu and everything has worked fine. Even the functional buttons like screen brightness and volume work for me. On the other hand, the palm detection does not work or is just terrible because I find myself constantly randomly tapping or moving the cursor when typing. Indeed it's moving around as I type this. I ended up just disabling tap to click which I actually love using, but besi…

Here are my notes to fix the overly sensitive trackpad on my Lenovo Carbon X1 (they'll probably only make sense after reading the links) from https://major.io/2012/12/28/handy-settings-for-the-touchpadc...

synclient "PalmDetect=1" synclient "PalmMinWidth=5" synclient "PalmMinZ=40"

Or soft link to a file from /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf.

To get middle-button scroll with trackpoint:

From https://askubuntu.com/questions/578600/how-do-i-get-the-trac...

edited /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d\11-evdev-trackpoint.conf upated the line:

MatchProduct "TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick"

to

MatchProduct "TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick|PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"

Sorry if they don't make sense, but the links are where I got my information, so they should help. The changes made a world of difference.

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