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Re: ThinkNext Design

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Post by arendtio »

Kwpolska wrote: post #25
arendtio wrote: post #4

While I love the Laptops, I still wonder why the 'Precision Wireless Travel Mouse' has the attribute 'Precision' in its name. I never owned another mouse as laggy and imprecise. Its design is good, but its basic mouse functionality is just very bad.

Also, this is the most basic two-button mouse design, the same as all cheapo mice since the 90s, what is so innovative about it?

A few positives from the design:

- You can easily remove the upper part which is hold by magnets - It is very easy to clean that way - You can store the receiver inside the mouse, very handy for transport - It runs on AA batteries, which hold for a while, and you can easily replace them if you need to

So the design definitely has some positives, but it isn't worth much if the mouse is laggy and imprecise (independent of the surface you use it on). And I am not talking about games or other real-time stuff, just too laggy for office work.

Re: ThinkNext Design

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Post by mhb »

agumonkey wrote: post #97

I used to be a thinkpad head, less so these days, but even good dell with trackpoint don't have the same feel. For people like me it does affect my use and joy. Also build quality is great, I don't think I threw out a single thinkpad in 20 years... If the thinkpad team and lenovo guys read this, keep it as long as possible

If those guys cared, we'd still have the great x220 keyboard.

Re: ThinkNext Design

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Post by WillAdams »

ofalkaed wrote: post #74
WillAdams wrote: post #65

For the real background here see: _Thinkpad: A Different Shade of Blue_ by Deborah A. Dell and J. Gerry Purdy https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/483933.ThinkPad I've always regretted not getting one of the tablet Thinkpads, and it kills me that the Lenovo Yogabook 9i is two technologies away from being perfect for me (needs to have a Wacom EMR stylus, and to have a Trackpoint)....

>Lenovo Yogabook 9i I am just waiting for linux to get sorted out on it and then I will buy. It might not be perfect but it looks pretty great. I mainly wish it had a headphone jack, bluetooth is not great for working on music.

The lack of a headphone jack is a good point --- I'll be sad when my dedicated MP3 player quits working and needs to be replaced.

Re: ThinkNext Design

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Post by Ylpertnodi »

hopelite wrote: post #57

What this brought to mind for me is that you are quite literally at the mercy of a different company when you do not control your OS as a computer/server company. All the wonderful design makes no difference when you’re at the mercy of the likes of Microsoft/Windows. Inversely, I am convinced that is largely what has made Apple so successfully at the core, controlling the OS did not limit them to all the technical re…

> the European failure and subordination to the USA/Microsoft by not fostering at least an alternative to Windows that its corporations and governments can operate on. There has been nothing but talk and tiny little forays into adopting open source, but absolutely nothing that could even rise to being a real alternative to Windows or even MacOS.

Yet. The current US 'situation', combined with US tech spying means those little forays are getting seriouser and seriouser. It's going to be somewhat slower due to languages, and induvidual governments wanting 'their' version (of spying on their populations), but the beginnings are begun.

Re: ThinkNext Design

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Post by agumonkey »

mhb wrote: post #102
agumonkey wrote: post #97

I used to be a thinkpad head, less so these days, but even good dell with trackpoint don't have the same feel. For people like me it does affect my use and joy. Also build quality is great, I don't think I threw out a single thinkpad in 20 years... If the thinkpad team and lenovo guys read this, keep it as long as possible

If those guys cared, we'd still have the great x220 keyboard.

the post 220 keyboards aren't bad imo, i loved the old style for sure

Re: ThinkNext Design

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Post by kiddico »

arianvanp wrote: post #36

I used my ThinkPad T430s for 12 years. I got it second hand from a developer I looked up to when I was in college and it carried me through a large part of my career. Loved that machine to death. When I finally replaced it with a Framework a few years back I've regretted every second of it. The ThinkPad still lives. I refurbished the batteries and slapped ChromeOS Flex on it and donated it to a Ukrainian refugee who…

I went through an odd series of emotions reading this lol.

ChromeOS made me throw up a bit but the recipient made me smile. May it serve them well.

Re: ThinkNext Design

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Post by Mashimo »

hagbard_c wrote: post #54
Mashimo wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do plastic case laptops warp in short order? I have never seen or heard about that.

It is not so much 'plastic' but 'flexible plastic' and the lack of a stiffening internal frame which causes problems. I've seen a few 'consumer' laptops - HP DV6000, several Acers - go bad this way with parts on the board loosening. What these models had in common was that none of them had a stiff inside frame but consisted of a plastic bottom on which the guts were screwed down and onto the back of which the screen…

> HP DV6000, several Acers

Yes, I also have seen it on laptop from that area. Often the hinges.

Never on thinkpads though. Also not on modern "plastic" thinkpads, people in the office walk around with them only holding at the screen.

Re: ThinkNext Design

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Post by michaelsshaw »

TheRoque wrote: post #26
Mashimo wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

T16 and E16 are 16" It's t14 that are 14", it's in the name.

I was referring more to the classic T4XX line, like T480, T490 etc. I don't know what the new T14 or T16 are worth, but if they have equal quality I'm highly interested !

Make sure you get an AMD T16, the intel ones fuck up and get too hot and lag for me. That's up to T14 Gen 2, by the way, I have no intel knowledge after that.
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