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Same, but I think he might refer to an external trackpad. I haven't ever encointered people upgrading their trackpads.
It can be done in this case. Tho I’m unclear if the X1E is ‘Macbook equivalent’. https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/j0mrh5/t480_with_... Hence the question. Love to know a trackpad (even external) that is of a similar feel and quality as the MacBooks.
I've owned an upgraded T480 since they were released, run archlinux on it. It was a decent computer, but despite having upgraded the battery to the largest possible configuration and using all the tricks in the book to maximize battery life in linux - it sucked. The reality is these Intel processors are just a big inefficient hot mess. I ended up upgrading to the 14" M1 Max, and there is literally no way you can make…
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T480 weighs 3.6lb vs. 3.5 for a 14" M1. I'm surprised you noticed. MBP doesn't have a trackpoint. Still can't run Linux as well, lacks USB A so still requires constant dongles despite improved port selection. I moved from a 2018 15" MBP to a P14s Gen 2 AMD. The speakers, screen, trackpad are worse. But I don't care. I'm not stuck using a horrible OS with miniscule amounts of storage to keep the price down. The machin…
Using still an ThinkPad X220 here with Archlinux. There two important things in any laptop, the built-in keyboard and the built-in screen. This is the I/O-Interface! Customers often do the mistake and doesn't invest in the best available screen. You cannot make this mistake with Apple, because they offer no options for the screen. Regarding keyboards, selecting a ThinkPad is always safe. I had to buy the X220 from a…
Agreed that the X220 form and function is excellent. The 7-row keyboard is amazing. The IPS screen is serviceable. The swappable 9-cell batteries give around 10 hours of battery life each. The i7-3520M is noticeably faster than the i5-8250U in my surface pro 6, even though benchmarks suggest it shouldn't be.
Just tried a new T14. The keyboard is decent. I haven't found any laptops with a keyboard as good as the 7-row.
The biggest contrast here and what we should be concerned about is the fact that this old Thinkpad can be upgraded and still be used vs an old macbook that if speced too low is now useless and ends up on a landfill. Not even considering that new macbooks if locked are unusable on the secondary market and get tossed even if the hardware is perfectly fine. It's as if we have given up on "solving" climate change in favo…
In practice old MacBooks tend to have a much longer useful life in my experience. I'm working on a 12" Macbook and I love it. It's still decently fast for.the lowest specced Macbook from 6 years ago. It supplements a 2017 Macbook Pro that's still overkill in 2022. Both have excellent battery life. If it wasn't for the nearly free upgrade I got in 2017, I'd probably still rock a 2012 model.
Maybe other manufacturers don't have long lifespans, I can't say, but Lenovos tend to hang around forever and are easy to sell when you want to upgrade.
See all the people commenting here about their 12 year old x220. I still use an 8 year old x250.
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yes, with this post sitting comfortably on #1 on the king neckbeard forum, it is as certainly getting head turns from us as it is certain never to become more than a passing bemusement *neckbeard used affectionately as an equal opportunity mindset that has evolved from its origins like many words have; there are women neckbeards too, as are neckbeards with no beards or for that matter no neck
> with this post sitting comfortably on #1 on the king neckbeard forum I'll have you know my beard is full, luxurious and grey, as befits someone with 20+ years of Unix experience.
Also, rant on how Apple was once my favorite, and now I hate them as much as 90s Microsoft. (M$ is no angel either with all their telemetry...)
I manage macs at scale, and I notice they are getting worse and worse. After managing 150 Macs as MDM admin, I want Mac to get off the train they're on and start being predictable again.
Intel macs run like crap now, while the M1s chug along nicely. I'm convinced Apple bakes engineering obsolesce into their old products to keep you on that 3 year device renewal period. They got sued for it more than once for the "Battery throttling" on the iPhone, and likely one of the only times they will ever get caught doing it. And they had an excelent PR push of "Battery health = performance, not my fault"
We've had to straight-up replace fully-decked-out 2019 i7s with 32GB ram because they run so badly with modern software. Our graphic designer has a $3000+ laptop that is useless for their job. Massive fuckery is going on, because these are powerful machines.
Why suspect malice when you can suspect incompetence? Apple has a track record of lying about their throttling, so I assume there's a culture of it and it pads their bottom line.
The T480 is looking great, other than the bad keyboard they adopted after they killed-off the last genuine thinkpad keyboards. An optional video card would have been great for the T line, but you'd have to go with W or P for that I think.
I don't trust big companies in General, but Apple makes too much money for just a computer and software company. Their ecosystem's walled garden and "we know better" settings are repellent to me, and I've since given up my iOS device for LineageOS so I can use my hotspot without it automatically turning itself off (They surely know better about my hotspot practices).
I've owned an upgraded T480 since they were released, run archlinux on it. It was a decent computer, but despite having upgraded the battery to the largest possible configuration and using all the tricks in the book to maximize battery life in linux - it sucked. The reality is these Intel processors are just a big inefficient hot mess. I ended up upgrading to the 14" M1 Max, and there is literally no way you can make…
Can you run Arch Linux on the M1 Max natively?