X13? XTRA line started from X20/T20/A20m/R30. Before that was 3 digit like 600E or iSeries 4 digit like i1420. Doesn’t look like there’s so much room in that number scheme.
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#112ThinkPads make better MacBook Pros than Apple-official products - by far and large. I’ve got a 2017 MacBook Pro and a 2016 Lenovo ThinkPad and the ThinkPad runs circles around it. It’s also literally a hybrid drawing tablet laptop running MacOS - so unimaginably useful as a creative - and something Apple doesn’t offer, unless you want half-baked iOS software (no Illustrator, no Animate, no Blender) on an iPad Pro. Ev…
>(went to the Apple Store, tried the 16” keyboard, still not impressed) Thank You, along with the rant from Taika Waititi at Oscar. There is still hope the old keyboard with more key depth will come back. There hasn't been a single improvement I like about the Mac both in terms of Hardware and software since 2015. ( Edit: Ok there was Mac Pro ) Sadly Windows hasn't made much improvement in 5 years either.
What did Taika Waititi say about Apple keyboards?
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
>(went to the Apple Store, tried the 16” keyboard, still not impressed) Thank You, along with the rant from Taika Waititi at Oscar. There is still hope the old keyboard with more key depth will come back. There hasn't been a single improvement I like about the Mac both in terms of Hardware and software since 2015. ( Edit: Ok there was Mac Pro ) Sadly Windows hasn't made much improvement in 5 years either.
What did Taika Waititi say about Apple keyboards?
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#114I know lots of people here need mac hardware, but it always surprises me just how many fans of macs and macosx are here. For me Thinkpads combined with linux is a great computing experience. I love the unification of package updates and installation and being able to pick from several mature desktop environments to suit your style of working. Thinkpads are pretty tough laptops - they don't have quite the fit and finish of macbooks, but they more than make for this in durability, usability and modularity.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it "ridiculous" to use a 10Gbps (or 40Gbps if you're spendy) bus to carry data? 'Cause I just sit down, plug any of my laptops (all of which have USB-C in, and everything just works. Windows, Linux, Macs (n.b.: this required a bit of a hack because they don't support MST, but it's not a huge deal)--sit down, go. Vendor-locked lower-bandwidth docking ports are an antipattern.
The one thing I miss about old docking stations is that they were basically a bunch of dumb wires. I've had to power cycle my Thunderbolt dock a couple of times because its software managed to hang itself.
I use a Dell Latitude with Thunderbolt docks and for the past two years I have had consistent problems with the Thunderbolt dock in one location, while in the other location I frequent the Thunderbolt dock has been rock solid. In the problematic location I have gone through three different Dell TB16 docks despite staying current with device driver updates, and finally gave up on the TB16 model and went with a D6000 which has been stable since its installation.
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#117I love thinkpads but I wish one came with a decent mobile gaming gpu. I guess that's not at all the audience the thinkpads are for though.
I have this on my P52 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GLM [Quadro P2000 Mobile] It's enough for most games. However buying a thinkpad for gaming is like buying a Tank to do groceries.
+1
I did some decent Linux gaming on my T450 -- moderate settings and framerates -- but ultimately they're work laptops.
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We buy refurb MacBook pros. Our specs are 256g ssd, 16g memory, hexcore + Applecare. We buy 15in machines because the vast majority of the company wanted 15in machines and I'm barely going to put the brain juice in to support one line of machines let alone two. You're paying around $2.2/2.5k a piece. We buy 1 or 2 every month depending on hiring or whenever I find someone who has a machine like the one you describe (…
Typically for corporate use you would pick a Lenovo model with next business day onsite warranty. So in case it breaks, somebody will come over to fix it. (This is why the components are easy to replace in those laptops)
Corporation that size isn't going to put up with Linux on the desktop if they're not FAANG and fuck deving on Windows.
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Super, super easy. Linux-distro-install level easy. Since Catalina randomly decided to destroy access to about 1/3rd of my software (I rely on old-school music plugins that won’t be updated) - I’m gonna link you here to the Mojave tool: http://dosdude1.com/mojave/ This is not my tool, it does require a Mac to use, in order to create the USB boot key you put in your PC. I have successfully patched about a dozen ThinkP…
dosdudes Tool is for running macOS on Apple Hardware That is unsupported (e.g. too old). Still not that hard, check out /r/hackintosh. And be prepared to swap your WiFi card, intel cards are unsupported, so are nvidia graphics.
> so are nvidia graphics.
Is there a workaround (replaceable card?), or does running Mac OS mean you can't use discrete graphics (which is a major degradation)?
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Do they still only have lackluster displays? Thinkpads maxed out at 1080p long after other premium laptops offered 4k.
1080p is not "lackluster" compared to a 4k. It's "lower resolution". 4k consumes (more or less significantly) more, which comes at a price - see the widely documented XPS 13. If one prefers super-high resolution, it's totally fine, but it's not correct to depict 1080p as poor for a work machine.
MacBook Pros of recent years have "2K" (2880 x 1800) displays, that renders at 1050p with extra pixels used for "sub"pixel aliasing. Plain 1080p on a laptop is pixelated for text viewing.