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Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by CountSessine »

corn13read wrote: post #350
masklinn wrote: post #208

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> There is no way a Macbook can compete with a proper Thinkpad Your criticisms are pretty almost all a matter of taste, and we're in disagreement just about throughout. > I wonder if it's the Valley culture? I'm not in the valley. I've never found any non-apple laptop with a good (or even decent) trackpad, and I like that OSX has a community of indie developers who actually care. > the keyboard I don't enjoy thinkpad…

You've never used a business thinkpad for more than 15 minutes

That's interesting - do you know him?

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by daxorid »

354 comments for a constantly-refreshing 404 page( "Product 22TP2TXX15G does not exist" )? Is anyone actually following the link or just commenting on the title?

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by ageofwant »

hedora wrote: post #349
ageofwant wrote: post #311

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I have the XPS 13 9350 (dmidecode c&p). The only issue is the BCM4350 Wifi card, and its a biggie. Do not buy the BCM, get the Intel Wifi card fitted. Or replace it yourself with this one: https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Generation-Wireless-Computer-No... , they cost about $15. I also had suspend/resume issues occasionally, a recent bios upgrade fixed that, I think. Apart from the original WiFi, I'm very happy with the…

Slightly off topic, but has anyone had luck with a (preferably intel) 3x3 wifi adaptor? I want one for a desktop. The linked one is 2x2, and amazon has a m.2->pcie wifi adaptor for $17. I have a 3x3 broadcom now, but it occasionally disassociates with the access point (and the box suffers from undiagnosed kernel hangs whether I plug an nvidia or amd video card into it...)

Linux Intel support is the best of all vendors, as far as I can tell. They have dedicated Linux driver devs and their specs are open. The quality of their drivers reflects this. In future I'll walk wide circles around anything broadcom.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by tvon »

amiga-workbench wrote: post #160
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…

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…

> (...) most developers setting up vagrant on their Mac just to get a working environment.

What kind of working environment requires setting up Vagrant on OSX? It's a Unix-based OS, if you're doing any web development you can do it on the host system.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by deathanatos »

zzleeper wrote: post #110
rcarmo wrote: post #54

I was assigned one of these (the 2015 model) as my office laptop, and I hate the thing for five reasons (two dealbreakers on top): - It is huge and unwieldy, like a cafeteria tray (and comes with a sizable power brick) - The touchscreen doesn't have an oleophobic coating, so it becomes a smudgy mess within hours (unlike my iPad, which looks pristine for weeks despite being even more heavily used) - The screen seems d…

Sorry, being an owner of the 2015 version, I don't know what the fuck are you talking about: - The brick is tiny. Sure, not as tiny as the 50 gram mac one, but is very small compared to most laptop bricks. - It's huge? Some peope want more screen real estate, and 14in is good for that. - Battery life is 6+ hours; less if I spend them watching youtube of course - Never had a problem with WiFi The only thing I agree is…

> - The brick is tiny.

I and my family have owned several Thinkpads. I just bought a Thinkpad this past cyber Monday, and the power brick it came with is significantly larger than prior Thinkpad models' bricks. So much so that I was a little disheartened when I saw it. Since you mention you have a slightly older model, I suspect that your adapter is tiny, as you say, on par w/ MBPs'. But the current models from Lenovo have regressed in this respect.

Just so you can see, here's a photo[1]. The smaller brick is from an older T500, and the larger one is from my new T460p. The small Lenovo and the MBP appear to output roughly the same. The larger, newer Lenovo one is capable of pushing more power, but at quite a cost in size.

[1]: http://imgur.com/CQJKyUp

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by noufalibrahim »

CountSessine wrote: post #359
NikolaNovak wrote: post #224

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Errr.... T530 had titanium cover and endoskeleton chassis. My friend routinely walks over his while it's powered on, as a demonstration. How is it possibly an example of a "plastic, flimsy, bendy" laptop? Yes it has screw holes and grills... it's a working-person's laptop :). The new ones don't, because they're becoming more like apple - which means I cannot as easily replace battery, hard drive, memory, etc as I do…

T530 had titanium cover and endoskeleton chassis. Titanium? walk over to my work T530, leaned up against the wall... What 'cover' on this is made out of titanium? It's all black plastic. I've heard it has a magnesium skeleton...? Maybe you mean the hinges? I guess those could be titanium - they're some kind of metal. Dude - the whole case on this thing is made out of plastic. I'm scratching the whole thing to find an…

I don't know about the modern ones. I've been a thinkpad user since 2005 or so and my impression is that the quality has been dropping consistently. Traditionally though, many of them came with a magnesium alloy roll cage that protected the internals quite well. It considerably reduced flex and made the whole thing quite solid. The X1, it seems, has a carbon fibre roll cage. I don't have any personal experience with it http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/thisisthinkpad/innovation/roll-c...

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by brightball »

santoriv wrote: post #203
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…

Yeah I bought a pretty expensive Macbook Pro earlier this year and recently ended up switching from OSX to Ubuntu after I got tired of dealing with all sorts of random Docker issues. To my surprise, I've found Linux to feel faster and be somewhat more pleasant than OSX. Now I sometimes wish I had just spent half as much money getting a more powerful (bulkier) laptop that just ran Linux.

Docker outside of Linux has been a major pain point for a while. I'm switching to a Linux laptop and native Docker is one of the things I'm most looking forward to.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by nolemurs »

username223 wrote: post #307
j7ake wrote: post #162

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You hinted at it in the end: MacBooks have good software that works. No troubles connecting to peripherals like printers and projectors. No worries about laptop sucking battery when I close the lid and forget to sleep. And MacBooks have the best touchpad of all laptops.

> MacBooks have good software that works. More specifically, the stuff I don't want to mess with just works: peripherals and GUI stuff work without intervention, and the thing goes to sleep when I close the lid. And the stuff I want to mess with is still good old familiar Unix. I haven't tried out desktop Linux in awhile, but the Free Software model only seems to work for things coders like to work on in their spare…

> I haven't tried out desktop Linux in awhile

I read your first sentence and was like "wow, this guy hasn't used Linux in a while." Then I got to your second sentence.

So, yeah, maybe give it another go. In my experience most of the complaints I had 4-5 years ago are gone at this point, and the convenience gap has closed substantially. OS X is still more user friendly of course, and there's a little bit of configuration required to make everything work smoothly under Linux, but it's a lot better than you remember.

Importantly, I've seen some devs using OS X, and they spend way more time dealing with dev tooling issues than I spend dealing with printers, devices, and gui stuff.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by thesandlord »

noir_lord wrote: post #283
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…

> Cut the bullshit and just run Linux on the bare metal, I run Linux on Linux via vagrant, it's not about my program running faster it's about isolating a client projects dependencies from each other so when I have to work on that system that is still in production on PHP Current-1 or Ruby-1 I don't have to fuck with my host OS at all. In fact I have very few developer bits and bobs installed on the host (mostly just…

Curious, why Vagrant and not Docker? Then you don't need to run a VM, but still get the same isolation.
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