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Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by pbowyer »

rzzzt wrote: post #442
pbowyer wrote: post #417

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> Curious, why Vagrant and not Docker? I have a Vagrant/Virtualbox workflow (on Windows host, so Docker not a great option yet) but curious: does Docker have shared folder support - via NFS or other? It's been the getting stuff into & out of the VM that's most painful IMO.

On Windows, if you are using Docker Toolbox, you can keep using VirtualBox. The corresponding driver of docker-machine will spin up the VM that runs the docker daemon, which, once it's running, you can control from the "outside". It uses shared folders support to map the user's home directory by default: https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/virtualbox/

> On Windows, if you are using Docker Toolbox, you can keep using VirtualBox.

Oh awesome, thanks! I looked when Docker for Windows came out and (thankfully) spotted the "After Hyper-V is enabled, VirtualBox will no longer work" (?!) warning before trying it. I didn't dig any deeper.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by collyw »

j7ake wrote: post #162
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…

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.

Bollocks. I have plenty of Mac uses at work asking me for help setting up their Macs with peripherals.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by LinuxFreedom »

Please support the idea of building a better planet for our children and do not buy laptops where you can not replace the battery - managers in companies that build these kind of products have to learn that they are acting against human interests and need to change their way of thinking.

Of course this applies to all Laptops where you can not change battery.

Thanks and have a better 2017!

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by cturner »

op00to wrote: post #241
josteink wrote: post #140

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> They're always some sort of plastic, feel flimsy and bendy The Carbon X1 is made from carbon fiber. It super-robust and light-weight at the same time. It feels light years ahead of the super-heavy aluminium-nonsense Apple is trying to peddle. Count me happy my laptop doesn't double as a bench-press.

No, it doesn't. I had gen 1, gen 2, gen 3 X1 carbons. Each was flimsy crap. Each was unrepairable. The gen3 literally fell apart when the screen needed to be replaced due to a manufacturing defect. This flimsy build is not a problem with my Apple laptops.

They have become flimsier, but also lighter. I have tried several, and have stuck with my first gen x1. But the newer thinkpads are so light now you can get a like-for-like with an original X1 by replacing it with a T-series.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by grzm »

LinuxFreedom wrote: post #453

Please support the idea of building a better planet for our children and do not buy laptops where you can not replace the battery - managers in companies that build these kind of products have to learn that they are acting against human interests and need to change their way of thinking. Of course this applies to all Laptops where you can not change battery. Thanks and have a better 2017!

Interesting. I hadn't heard of this before. Can you share some references about this?

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by s_kilk »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #323
s_kilk wrote: post #229

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Any issues with Ubuntu? or did it all just work out of the box? I'm really interested in the XPS 13/15, but don't want to end up with a brick.

XPS 15 9550 here. Got mine on eBay for ~$1k with no SSD. Mine has the i7-6700HQ, 4K IGZO touchscreen, bigger battery (which takes up the 2.5" SSD space, so M.2 SSD only which is fine by me), and GTX 960. Follow http://seb.mamessier.com/dell-xps-15-9550-ubuntu-16-04/ + http://malachisoord.com/2016/09/10/xps-15-9550-ubuntu-setup/ and it's OK. Graphics switching doesn't work flawlessly. Powertop requires some messing ab…

Interesting, thanks!

It seems like a lot of effort. I think I may just snap up a 2014 MBP and install Ubuntu on that.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by collyw »

innocentoldguy wrote: post #398
munchbunny wrote: post #148

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There are plenty of options, but it really depends on your definition of good . Different people making the same complaint as you on HN have very different and sometimes very particular criteria. If you look at the systems overall the MBP's have good alternatives now. The X1 is actually really impressive. First gen had a short battery life and the display wasn't high resolution, but they addressed that pretty quickly…

Perhaps from a hardware perspective this is true, but if you have to run commercial software (e.g. Adobe, DAWs, etc.) and do software development in a Unix environment, there really isn't a better option than macOS on a MacBook Pro. Windows sucks, and as much as I love Linux, it just doesn't cut it when I need Illustrator, Photoshop, Studio One, or Logic.

My guess is that most software developers don't use the packages you mentioned as they are for designers primarily.

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Post by gravypod »

pbowyer wrote: post #422
gravypod wrote: post #266

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If you buy a 10-keyless keyboard they are usually small. You can pick up chinese cloan switches now for extremely cheap right now. This one looks good enough: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Water-Resistant-VicTop-Mechanical-W... IF you're concerned wrap it in some kind of cloth but for under 30 bucks it's not a major concern if you get a decent lifespand out of it. I'd say anything over 2 years is a huge win.

Thanks for alerting me to these, I've kept looking at the proper 10keyless keyboards like Topre [0] thinking "Really? Is it worth that much?". Be good to try something cheaper, though the single-height enter key would drive me CRAZY. [0] http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/realforce-88ub-45g-key-bl... . £192!!

Something is only worth how much you will use it. If you will use your keyboard every day from now until the cataracts and arthritis gets you then you'll probably find it worth the money to invest in good tooling. My keyboard was is actually and open boz/broken from manufacturer version of an OK one, I paid 37$. Worth twice that for how easy it makes typing and these are bad switches mind you.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by jiqiren »

LinuxFreedom wrote: post #453

Please support the idea of building a better planet for our children and do not buy laptops where you can not replace the battery - managers in companies that build these kind of products have to learn that they are acting against human interests and need to change their way of thinking. Of course this applies to all Laptops where you can not change battery. Thanks and have a better 2017!

Nonsense. If you dispose your ewaste properly (which is in general the law) a builtin battery will get recycled or disposed of just the same as one that is replaceable.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by gustavohmsilva »

Waterluvian wrote: post #22

I want to be excited by a good non-Apple laptop. But they're all just so terribly designed. They're always some sort of plastic, feel flimsy and bendy, have grills and screw holes and uneven surfaces and stickers everywhere. I had a T530 for a few years at my first job and just hated it. It had fantastic specs but it felt awful and unreliable and like I had to babysit it. I got a 2015 MBP to replace it after IT damag…

I've been happy with google's Chromebook Pixel LS running Linux with openbox (for minimal resource consumption) and running windows 8 inside a VM. The construction of this chromebook is at the same level of any Apple device, with the upside of having a better design (in my opinion).
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