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http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/t-series/t...
This actually looks like a great laptop, could some point out what's wrong with it? The screen isn't too big and it has a nice resolution, which isn't easy to find.
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http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/t-series/t...
This actually looks like a great laptop, could some point out what's wrong with it? The screen isn't too big and it has a nice resolution, which isn't easy to find.
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http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/t-series/t...
This actually looks like a great laptop, could some point out what's wrong with it? The screen isn't too big and it has a nice resolution, which isn't easy to find.
So, are they still selling POWER/PowerPC servers? Would this product line be affected?
Why would POWER be affected by this decision? Everyone and their mother sells a x86 server. Hard to make a profit when everyone is competing. How many other companies sell POWER hardware?
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http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/t-series/t...
This actually looks like a great laptop, could some point out what's wrong with it? The screen isn't too big and it has a nice resolution, which isn't easy to find.
It's just like any other laptop now. And when you're used to 1440x900 (I'm on a MacBook Air) 160 horizontal pixels is really worthless and screws up the proportions. What ThinkPad users want, and have wanted for ages is a 16:10 display, excellent engineering, and the TrackPoint front and center.
Lenovo is squandering all of the above.
Makes sense. In the era of cloud services IBM's traditional targets are going to be buying far fewer servers. And you know Amazon and Rackspace aren't buying IBM hardware. Name-brand computers are a shrinking business. This is true across all markets. Even Apple's share is shrinking (as it continues printing money with the devices it's selling, of course)
I would not be surprised to learn that the US Government is the largest single purchaser of IBM hardware, directly or indirectly. Most projects I am familiar with that use COTS machines for processing are using IBM boxes. A significant number of those were x86 though, which leads me to believe that market isn't enough for IBM. Of course, they were pushing POWER really hard when I left that world.
It's interesting to see ads for this very IBM server product in the sidebar of this article.
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This actually looks like a great laptop, could some point out what's wrong with it? The screen isn't too big and it has a nice resolution, which isn't easy to find.
First of all, there's no seventh row on the keyboard. Second, the Trackpoint buttons are gone. Third, the Thinklight has been replaced with a backlit keyboard, which is egregious as the Thinklight allowed one to illuminate documents or other materials as well as the keyboard. It's just like any other laptop now. And when you're used to 1440x900 (I'm on a MacBook Air) 160 horizontal pixels is really worthless and scre…
I've had two Thinkpads in the past (A21 and A31) before I switched to a Macbook Pro. I don't remember the thinklight being very useful, but that may just be me. Not sure how well the trackpad works as a mouse button.
It's a shame 16:10 has not been adopted by more laptop manufactures, it's a great resolution. Even 4:3 may be ready for a comeback, I'd really like to see a Chromebook in action, although I would prefer to run a more traditional Linux operating system on it.