Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers

Post by kamechan » Tue, May 08, 2012, 12:42 PM UTC

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I thought this for a while as well, but I wouldn't put it past manufacturers to have done some comprehensive testing before just moving to island-style keyboards. I prefer the thinkpad keyboards myself and use a mechanical keyboard on my desktop (one which I consider to have the best tactile feedback available: a Topre Realforce). However, as a dvorak touch-typist I was curious to find out just how well different key…

I just got 114wpm random on a ThinkPad T400 using a qwerty layout (note that all the keys I mention below assume a qwerty layout). I couldn't find a non-random option on that site. I prefer the feel of the MacBook-style keyboards, and I think I'm more accurate on them, but I don't have one in front of me right now to test my speed. I might be faster on a ThinkPad. For me, one of the biggest factors in choosing a keyb…

Post by corin_ » Tue, May 08, 2012, 2:05 PM UTC

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In the spirit of... well... "thinking differently" we might call it, I'll actually say I'm pretty happy with the Dells I've had. They're solid workhorses with relatively good value for the money I spent on them. Certainly, they are not glamorous or beautiful, but they work well, have good support, and have generally run Ubuntu pretty well. That said, if someone came along and really did good Linux support, I'd probab…

I've been pretty happy with my Dell laptops, running Ubuntu. But they lost me when they dropped WUXGA. That extra 200-pixel row may not matter to folks using their machine to watch movies, but it's missing developer real estate to me.

Post by bandy » Tue, May 08, 2012, 3:22 PM UTC

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I think I must be the only person out there that can't stand chiclet keyboards. One of the many reasons I'm interested in the upcoming Vizio thin+light notebooks is because they're not using chiclets.

Yes, the old-school ThinkPad keyboards were the best you could get on a laptop. Chiclet keyboards are made for non-touch typists, the kind of people who need to hunt and peck with big fat fingers. My fave keyboard is my Unicomp Linux model, with the Caps Lock and Ctrl keys swapped...but best of all, with positive keyclick and actual mechanical switches under each key instead of dopey, squishy foam like what you get w…

Post by encoderer » Tue, May 08, 2012, 7:25 PM UTC

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I went shopping a couple weeks ago for a MacBook Air to replace my 15" MBP as my primary development machine. (The endorsement a couple weeks before from Linus about the simplicity and silence of the Air sold me) I picked it up at BestBuy and when I was there I glanced at their Ultrabooks display. They had 3. The Asus and Toshiba seemed complete crap. Flimsy. Trash. The only one that seemed a plausible purchase was t…

Two questions: 1. Are you happy with the Air versus the MBP? 2. Seems a strange time to buy. Why not buy in six months time?

Post by icebraining » Tue, May 08, 2012, 8:11 PM UTC

xaa wrote: post #34

People can develop on 13" screens?