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Re: Thinkpad X210

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Post by jdhawk »

archon810 wrote: post #249
saagarjha wrote: post #6

> 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…

Whatever you buy, don't buy the ThinkPad X1 Extreme. Its fans are on all. the. time, and the CPU goes into thermal throttling even when idle. https://www.google.com/search?q=x1+extreme+fans

It really is the worst of all worlds. P series performance...for 15-20 seconds.

Carbon series form factor...3 hours at a time.

Re: Thinkpad X210

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Post by bitL »

untog wrote: post #384
bitL wrote: post #383

I can't comprehend why not a single company could do a notebook like this! Classical keyboard, hi-dpi 3:2 screen, centered trackpad (well, in this case not 100%), latest CPU/memory/SSD. Is it that difficult?

To sell enough of them at a price people want to pay? Sadly, yes.

They can bump the price and it would sell like hot cakes among developers. There are simply no similar products on the market. If NUC is profitable, which is a niche product, I can't see how such a notebook couldn't be (given at least minimal marketing and not putting a product notice into a locked cellar).

Re: Thinkpad X210

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Post by krick »

I don't get it. How is it Thinkpad X-something, and yet "made by a group of enthusiasts, not a big company"? Is it an illegal rip-off? Is it Lenovo lending their name to someone else? What is this 51NB exactly?

Re: Thinkpad X210

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Post by eitland »

SteveNuts wrote: post #266
jjeaff wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have raised so much money and have so many engineers. Is performance of their app so low priority that no one is working on that?

Their priority was probably shipping a cross-platform app as quickly as possible and gaining adoption. My hunch is they will eventually make native apps for Windows and Mac and drop Linux support.

Dropping Linux support should be getting harder and harder: I've never seen more Linux machines in the office than now.

Yesterday I saw someone here on HN saying they didn't know (something about Windows) because they never used Windows.

Re: Thinkpad X210

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Post by ggreer »

umvi wrote: post #324

I noticed the author names his computers after elements (iron). I do that too! I was taken aback because I have a box named "iron" also (as well as cobalt, oxygen, and helium)

I name all of my computers after elements. I set up DHCP leases so that the last octet of each host's IP is their atomic number. eg: hydrogen is 192.168.1.1, lithium is 192.168.1.3, carbon is 192.168.1.6, iron is 192.168.1.26, etc.

I also tend to categorize machines by elemental classification. Servers are alkalai metals, laptops are nonmetals, consoles are halogens, etc. I didn't have any neat nonmetals left, so I just called my new laptop "iron".

I describe the whole scheme in a blog post I wrote long ago: https://geoff.greer.fm/2009/06/17/hostnames/

Re: Thinkpad X210

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Post by truth_seeker »

>> If the SSD fails, you can replace it. If the RAM fails, you can replace it. If the wifi card fails, you can replace it. If the screen fails, you can replace it. You can even replace the Trackpoint and the little rubber feet without much trouble. The laptop can be entirely disassembled with two Philips screwheads (#0 and #1). At no point do you encounter tape, glue, or pentalobe screws.

I am sold, totally :)

Re: Thinkpad X210

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Post by ggreer »

firmgently wrote: post #270
GordonS wrote: post #119

Is 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 moved to a 10.1" display as a winter (low power) necessity. There's more sun now so I have enough power for my larger laptop but am not using it, I prefer the ergonomics of my current setup. My tablet is on an arm suspended at eye height about 15-20cm away from my face. At the same time I can have my ThinkPad BlueTooth keyboard+trackpoint in an ergonomically sound position (not possible to do both of these things s…

What an odd setup. I very much want to read a Uses This interview of you. I imagine it would be similar to Joey Hess: https://usesthis.com/interviews/joey.hess/

Re: Thinkpad X210

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Post by therein »

evjim wrote: post #215
eggy wrote: post #17

I have a Lenovo T430u running Kali, and it is rock solid. I love the keyboard, and I use the TrackPoint for CAD work in FreeCAD. I never feel like it is going to slip from my hands when I pull it from my backpack. It is so easy to open up, that I open it twice or more a year to clean out the fans, which are usually clean anyway; I like seeing the internals like a car mechanic who likes to check under the hood ;) I co…

How did you learn freecad? I really want to switch to it from auto desk inventor but have spent hours messing around and can't even make a cube. The YouTube videos I was watching assumed I knew too much.

Same here, glad I am not alone. I wasn't sure if I had a bad build or something so I built it from source but even then I couldn't get it to work.

Re: Thinkpad X210

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Post by smnplk »

eropple wrote: post #237
smnplk wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently you haven't seen any of Louis Rossmann videos on Youtube. Let's say your grandma's MacBook stops working because of blown fuse on the motherboard. Something like that would take Louis 5 min to repair, but Apple store would just replace the whole motherboard and charge $$$. How is that environmentally friendly.

One: shout out your favorite YouTubist, I guess, but a repair Apple makes is a repair Apple has to support . Two: it's much, much harder to support a repair done on-site with a soldering iron than it is to replace a part. These repairs are much more likely to fail under both normal and unconventional use and then will come back for more repairs--which are themselves, still, expensive to provide. Three: waste concerns…

>> One: shout out your favorite YouTubist, I guess, but a repair Apple makes is a repair Apple has to support. Saying he is my favorite Youtuber is a bit condescending. I mentioned him, because he is a loud proponent of the right to repair movement.

>> These repairs are much more likely to fail under both normal and unconventional use and then will come back for more repairs--which are themselves, still, expensive to provide.If that was true, I am sure Apple would choose to repair parts instead of replacing them. ;)

Re: Thinkpad X210

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Post by tuukkah »

k_sze wrote: post #380
dgzl wrote: post #346

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is a brighter screen what we want though? E-ink type screens are excellent in the sun, but lack gorgeous colors... And I'm almost ok with it.

There’s maybe a billion-dollar opportunity there: maybe someone could invent a hybrid screen that switches from (O)LED to e-ink mode under bright lighting conditions.

That's exactly what OLPC has. And I remember an old Nokia phone having a screen that's both at the same time so that brighter sunlight will just wash out the colors but not the content: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal...
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