What laptops currently out in the market have a trackpad comparable to the Macbook Pro's?
Most of the good ones. Manufacturers finally realized it was a stupid detail to fail at.
Thinkpad X210
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#122Mini DP -> HDMI is possible you just need to buy an active one instead of a passive one.
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#123Is anyone happy coding on such a small screen, even if it is high-res? I have a 2016 13" MBP, and find the screen too small for coding. It's high-res, but that means everything is super-small unless you increase the scaling, which of course reduces the available screen real estate. The screen is annoyingly reflective too, but that's another problem entirely. My daily driver is a 15" HP Zbook G3 with a 1080p display,…
I use an external screen on my 12" laptop. Obviously not useful for coding on the train, but for those short periods the 12" is fine.
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#124Please, allow me to hijack this thread. What's the best Thinkpad I could get in Europe for ~200€ right now? (Off eBay of course). I don't care whether it's 13" or 15". Edit: thanks for all the replies.
For 200 EUR you should be able to get a decent T440. Then invest another 15EUR and buy a T450 trackpad.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah but after that, he never had any problem with it, except sleep mode cutting wifi sometimes. Or bluetooth not pairing. Or the battery lasting half as expected. Nothing that a few commands can't fix. Zero maintenance.
This reminds me of a flash cartoon that circulated around 2001 or 2002 with a guy flying through air talking about all he had to do is mod probe or patch his kernel and was like a wizard in the classic kind of flash style animation... I wish I still had the flash file or someone could recreate it in a viewable format for today...
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#126> Battery life is a little over 4 hours with the flush battery (55Wh) and 6-7 hours with the extended battery (80Wh). Not going to lie, that’s pretty horrible. > Battery life would increase by 50% if I got PC6 or PC8 idle states. The fan only turns on if I’m doing something intensive like compiling go or scrolling in Slack. lol. One of the things that really drives me nuts is my computer’s fan turning on when I know…
I only buy fanless laptops now.
Do you have a list of fanless laptops that you might recommend? (I only know of the Huawei MateBook X and the Xiaomi Mi Air.)
I have to bear with my laptop's loud fan, but I would like to replace it with a fanless one in the future.
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#127This is a good time to bring up the fact there was never an industry-wide standardization effort for laptops. A standard form-factor means components would be re-usable between upgrades: the laptop case, power supply, monitor, keyboard, touchpad could all be re-used without any additional effort. This improves repairability, is much better for the environment, and means higher-end components can be selected with the…
It did not happen for phones either. Why should this be different?
Maybe laptops now are mature enough as a product that what you suggest could be feasible but it is too late for business reasons, now.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A standard form-factor means components would be re-usable between upgrades We don't even have to go that far. Just ensuring that laptops can be serviced by their own users would go a long way to reduce e-waste. i.e. not soldering RAM chips to the motherboard, making it feasible to remove every single part (not gluing the keyboard to the MB for example), etc... instead of pursuing an ever thinner laptop design, whi…
Consumers prefer super-thin soldered machines, sadly. The proof is in the shopping.
Consumers "prefer" what the billions of pounds spent on marketing tells them to prefer.
If companies spent money telling consumers to value upgradability and not to buy new stuff all the time, then we'd value that more .. but that doesn't sell more stuff, it just helps save the planet, so why bother ....
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#129Nvme SSD slot + plenty of USB 3 slots + ability to plug in 32GB RAM easily is great.
Any company reducing physical peripherals slots on their devices should be publicly condemned!
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
> A standard form-factor means components would be re-usable between upgrades We don't even have to go that far. Just ensuring that laptops can be serviced by their own users would go a long way to reduce e-waste. i.e. not soldering RAM chips to the motherboard, making it feasible to remove every single part (not gluing the keyboard to the MB for example), etc... instead of pursuing an ever thinner laptop design, whi…
Soldering ram is helpful for preventing people cooling the ram and removing it to attempt to copy private encryption keys
Couldn't the 3 people in the World who need that just dob some epoxy on there?