Lenovo doesn't have a great website, but their ThinkPads are nice.
We Need a Better PC
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#102> They display low ratings for their own products on their own website. What. How is this a complaint? I'd love other companies to post both good and bad reviews without filtering. > Except that page is deceptive, because that's actually the old X1 Carbon Don't know about other locations, but here the X1 got a really nice discount once the 2016 model got announced. (also visible in the screenshot) I got it and I'm re…
Just a note but while Apple doesn't show ratings for their main lineup of devices (and probably for exactly the reasons mentioned by link) they do show them for accessories and some of them are pretty low rated:
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD818AM/A/lightning-to-usb...
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
I looked at the 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Skylake variant of the XPS 13. Amazing looking machine, fits my filter criteria of "has service manual available to mortals" except for one problem - Dell won't sell me one, and neither will Microsoft (Signature Edition). They only seem to be available in the US and even if I was willing to spend the nearly $4000AUD to import one they won't ship to a non-US address.
You're dodging a bullet. (See my response to op)
That's OK, I hate the Force trackpad on the newer Macbooks, too. (and it looks like using the Synaptics driver or Windows 10 1522+ helps with your issue)
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Add me to the rage brigade. I think the OP has missed the Microsoft "Signature" edition products. They're a clean Windows 10 image and you buy direct from Microsoft. I just wish they'd sell me the XPS 13 9350 (the highest spec'd one) in Australia. Edit: AFAICT a lot of the battery life on a MacBook comes from the way OS X works - friends who use Bootcamp tell me it significantly reduces their battery time.
That's lame they don't sell those there. I got a 9350 myself and loaded Ubuntu onto it and it's been fantastic. What do they limit you to? Just the basic XPS 13 models? Also, what if someone in the US bought one and had it shipped to Australia? Is that doable?
Depending on how many rules you'd like to break I'd be likely to be charged 10% GST on import when it got to Australian Customs.
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#105Why isn't there a Linux distribution that's specifically for installing on Macbooks? Given how few Macbook models there are, you could include exactly (and only) the correct drivers. Optimize everything to work perfectly, including things that often require tweaking to get working correctly (WiFi, screen brightness, power settings, etc).
If I knew it would not be an adventure installing Linux on my MBP, I'd pay good money for such a distro!
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#106Dell sputnik. It's great.
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#107True, there should something to rival Apple in the laptop arena.
Unfortunately there isn't. Apple just makes hardware that's so sexy and intuitive to use. Example, Apple TV. I never used one before but I demo'd one at Best Buy the other day and in 10 seconds I knew how to operate it. Apple does this best, their earnings prove that.
Just buy a Macbook Air, sturdy as hell, long battery life, and great Unix-enough-y OS.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can I bring my desktop on a plane? To meetings at my client's offices? No? Isn't that an interesting bit of nuance that you so blithely elide.
If you have $1000's to spend on airfare you can afford to have a good desktop machine and a good laptop.
Not necessarily. My budget is pretty finely calibrated at the moment - my desktop is going to remain pretty broken for a while so that I can get a new laptop.
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#109Avoid the dell developers edition xps13. There's no end key, the trackpad is unusable. Even worse, avoid getting the windows version and installing Linux on that: the trackpad is even less unusable (resets to lower corner intermittently on clicks), and in order to get the wi-fi working I had to recompile the kernel driver telling it that it was FOSS.
For the most part these issues are all fixed in recent kernel versions (> 4.2). The default trackpad driver (synaptics) is indeed buggy, but the newer libinput driver (available in the Ubuntu repos since 15.10) works perfectly. The WiFi card is a bit annoying if you want to build the driver yourself but it works out of the box on stock Ubuntu 15.10.
Admittedly there were some issues early on, but now that issues have all been patched it's an excellent laptop. Fantastic build quality, great battery life, and the display is the best I've seen on a laptop.
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#110> They display low ratings for their own products on their own website. What. How is this a complaint? I'd love other companies to post both good and bad reviews without filtering. > Except that page is deceptive, because that's actually the old X1 Carbon Don't know about other locations, but here the X1 got a really nice discount once the 2016 model got announced. (also visible in the screenshot) I got it and I'm re…
Nothing says "my company shoots for Mediocre" more than featuring your own 3/5 star products on your own landing page Call me crazy but this is why Apple is even a thing
Sorry, I don't get this. Two companies sell basically the same thing. Both will give you all the usual marketing crap and slightly hidden actual specs. One will also give you actual opinions of people who aren't hired to take your money away. How is the other one better?
I get the whole apple cult idea and buying a status symbol. But if anyone is going to compare the products, they'll just go to another site and see exactly the same ratings. Allowing ratings on your main page even allows you to respond to some specific issues. (wifi 5G disconnects often -> we published a bios update for that here/link)