ThinkPad X1 Carbon • Hacker News Board

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by djcapelis » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 7:50 PM UTC

dgl wrote: post #13

They really should write that it has USB-C charging in bigger letters (see http://www3.lenovo.com/medias/ww-lenovo-laptop-thinkpad-x1-c... for the evidence).

Oh! I was just considering getting an X1 4th gen. If this is true, I'd wait so I can have USB-C charging on it like I expect all of the rest of my machines to have soon. I wonder if the power adapters will play nice with other hardware.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by blinkingled » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 7:50 PM UTC

dgl wrote: post #13

They really should write that it has USB-C charging in bigger letters (see http://www3.lenovo.com/medias/ww-lenovo-laptop-thinkpad-x1-c... for the evidence).

That's a better collection of ports! Hopefully the trackpad is big and precision per the latest Windows 10 requirement.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by sparrish » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 7:50 PM UTC

ck__ wrote: post #23

will it bend?

If it's anything like the 2016 model I have, no. It's solid and can take abuse well.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by alaithea » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 7:51 PM UTC

piker wrote: post #16

Has anyone installed Linux on this machine? If so, how has your experience been with respect to driver support, etc.? Thanks in advance.

I can't speak to this generation of the machine, but I've had a decent experience with Ubuntu on the 3rd gen Carbon X1. I have constant issues with the wifi, though... networkmanager needs to be restarted a couple times a day or else the OS will just lose connection and say wifi is disabled. There is also a general sluggishness, especially when web-browsing, that I have not yet tracked down.

All in all, though, it is fine, and the hardware is very nice. I did have trouble getting any other distros besides Ubuntu to install and run properly, though, YMMV.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by dangmurderparty » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 7:52 PM UTC

Most three letter agencies have an outright ban on Lenovo hardware. It's a security deathwish to use one, imo.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by n0us » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 7:52 PM UTC

Anyone know if this will have precision touchpad?

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by nerflad » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 7:52 PM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #22

I want to be excited by a good non-Apple laptop. But they're all just so terribly designed. They're always some sort of plastic, feel flimsy and bendy, have grills and screw holes and uneven surfaces and stickers everywhere. I had a T530 for a few years at my first job and just hated it. It had fantastic specs but it felt awful and unreliable and like I had to babysit it. I got a 2015 MBP to replace it after IT damag…

It isn't perfect by any stretch, but I've been liking my XPS 13. The battery is especially noteworthy.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by mr337 » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 7:53 PM UTC

tbrock wrote: post #26

This looks like a very nice computer. I really applaud dell for trying to make the XPS 13 somewhat Linux friendly but they really do feel cheap. Lenovo thinkpads, while not having the quality they had during the IBM era, are still head and shoulders above Dell in this regard. This is the Linux laptop to get in 2017.

Really, I have both of them (X1 2016) and I prefer the build of the XPS. The X1 has better keyboard, but not by much. The XPS has aluminum on the top and bottom making it more study and not plastic feeling. I don't baby the XPS as much as the X1 when traveling.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by JJMalina » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 7:53 PM UTC

piker wrote: post #16

Has anyone installed Linux on this machine? If so, how has your experience been with respect to driver support, etc.? Thanks in advance.

I did it on the previous (4th) generation and wrote about it: https://gist.github.com/jjmalina/5e13b2269ec97895ea5fda9df6d...

Probably will be a similar experience having to install non-free wifi drivers and possibly some kernel graphics drivers not working well.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by plexicle » Fri, Dec 30, 2016, 7:53 PM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #40

petilon wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In terms of industrial design, Samsung's ultrabooks are excellent, in my opinion: http://www.samsung.com/us/computing/windows-laptops/12-14/no...

All 3 laptops suggested to me in this thread have foldy complicated hinges. What's the deal with that?

If you can get past the "gamer" aesthetic and you aren't interested in a 2-in-1-- the Razer Blade (and Stealth) are great build quality and specs. Razer itself has terrible (non-existent?) support-- but the products are good.