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Post by inatreecrown2 »

winrid wrote: post #119
inatreecrown2 wrote: post #112

On the topic of old thinkpads, how are you all doing with the old batteries? I have 2 thinkpads, x220 and x230, both with removable batteries. When I leave home for longer I move these batteries to a place in the house where a battery fire would cause the least damage. Am I overthinking this?

If you're really concerned get a metal ammo box (they're like $15 at harbor freight in the US last I checked). I put my 40v ryobi tool batteries in these as they're known for going full firework.

Thanks, ordered!

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Post by thcipriani »

Bring back the thinklight! How else will you look at your notes and type without turning on the lamp?

Nub scrolling? A three button mouse on a trackpad? I can't be the only one who wants this.

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

Re: ThinkNext Design

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Post by fuck_google »

ltbarcly3 wrote: post #91
fr3772 wrote: post #90

I had 3 different Thinkpads... The first went down after 1 year with a headcrash. 1. HDD headcrash in my life. The second one was delivered with bad RAM. Support denied help because of wrong FRU Number. The whole thing went back to the dealer. The third one died in a loud bang of the power supply and died with it. About design: Placing the Ctrl key not on the outside drove me crazy. The trackcap was horribly to use -…

This reminds me of the time I went to a church dinner with my father. Everything was fine, but then each person was asked to stand and briefly mention something they were thankful for. About half way through one of the oldsters mentioned their health problems - "I'm thankful they aren't worse" - sigh. Every person after that had to list every health problem they had, and every health problem everyone in their family…

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Re: ThinkNext Design

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Post by Lare2 »

IMO ThinkPads and Sony Vaio's where always better designed than anything Apple ever put out to be honest. Their designs where with a purpose of function instead of the pure design over function philosophy of Macs

Re: ThinkNext Design

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Post by noufalibrahim »

keyle wrote: post #50
noufalibrahim wrote: post #41

I've been using Thinkpads exclusively from 2005 or so. My first was a T40 I got from work. Then I got a T42 of my own. I used it heavily till the fan gave out. After that, I got an X200 which I used for a long time. The keyboard got damaged because of a spill. I replaced it but somehow, the motherboard got shorted out and it died. I then bought a second hand X240 (roughly 2013) and used it as my primary machines. Rep…

> (hardware was decent. Software was terrible) I'd be interested to hear which software was terrible on mac and what was the better alternative on your side of the fence?

I think it was mostly familiarity. I'd been using Linux on thinkpads for so long that I had a few config files which for the tools I used. Mine was a very text heavy command line workflow. Mostly driven by the keyboard. Almost no mouse usage (except the occasional GUI program to draw). Tiling window managers. I was also very used to package repositories which worked smoothly (Debian/Ubuntu). Brew etc. wasn't that smooth.

I suppose I could have learnt how to use it and become efficient but even the possible gains seemed very poor and I didn't think it was worth the investment. I used the smallest subset of features I needed to get my work done and that was enough.

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Post by ixdba »

imiric wrote: post #79
bigpeopleareold wrote: post #44

I appreciate all the innovations that him and his team brought to the ThinkPad, since this is my main set of laptops. Lenovo, on the other hand, has been a hit or miss for awhile. I had a T570, which was horrible; one problem after the next. It's just a source of parts now. There are some design issues with the T480 (no center screw in the front/bottom). Also with the T480 is, what it seems to be, the slightly flaky…

IMO the ThinkPad brand died after IBM sold its PC division. Lenovo has kept it alive because it is a cash cow, but the machines have shoddy build quality and are ludicrously overpriced. My previous X1 Extreme Gen 1 (2018) had annoying coil whine and screen backlight bleed. One of the key caps broke off after a couple of years. Eventually I ended up doing a full keyboard and battery replacement. My current X1 Carbon G…

Yes, the quality control of Lenovo's computers in recent years has been really poor.

Re: ThinkNext Design

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Post by jas39 »

2b3a51 wrote: post #17
jas39 wrote: post #11

Had my lenovo thinkpad bricked by sleep mode in linux. Never again. Seriously overrated stuff. Get a laptop with 3:2 display instead.

Which Thinkpad model is that? A quick Web search shows examples from more recent models with any OS.

This was a ThinkPad X1 Carbon (4th Gen).

Re: ThinkNext Design

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Post by jas39 »

microtonal wrote: post #72
jas39 wrote: post #11

Had my lenovo thinkpad bricked by sleep mode in linux. Never again. Seriously overrated stuff. Get a laptop with 3:2 display instead.

Unlikely that it is actually bricked. I had an issue with the T14 Gen 1 AMD that if the battery was fully drained by S3 sleep, I couldn't charge it with the Lenovo charger anymore. However, using a MacBook charger it charged fine.

No, it was bricked. Connected to mains at the time. Tried to reset it with a needle. Then unscrewed it. All components were glued. Googled around, and it has happened to other people. I think lenovo bought the brand and design, then just cut costs.

I was traveling at the time. Mayor inconvenience.

Re: ThinkNext Design

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Post by jas39 »

imran0 wrote: post #62
jas39 wrote: post #11

Had my lenovo thinkpad bricked by sleep mode in linux. Never again. Seriously overrated stuff. Get a laptop with 3:2 display instead.

Doubt it was the thinkpad's fault. Sleep and bluetooth is still a shitshow on linux.

Well, software should not be able to destroy hardware.
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