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Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by mmjaa »

SomeHacker44 wrote: post #302
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…

I've had the new MacBook Pro 15" with Touch Bar for several days now. I'm returning it. The Lenovo is what I really wanted, but it doesn't run MacOS. This Touch Bar is the worlds worst idea. I literally now have to look at the keyboard to type again, like I'm 10 years old. I haven't looked at a keyboard in decades. The machine is going back this week. What a disaster. And, don't tell me to learn to use Caps Lock for…

Just for the record, retraining your muscle memory is good for your hands. (Disclaimer: I have the same rMBP-touchbar, for about a week now, and I love it. Remapped CAPSLOCK and not looking back...)

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by pbowyer »

gravypod wrote: post #266
farresito wrote: post #180

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I've actually thought about doing so, but I'm always moving back and forth, so right now I think my best choice is to stick with a laptop. I agree that they all suck, but some (most?) of them suck so much they are out of question. I don't know what happened, really. 10 years ago you bought a laptop, no matter which brand, and you would get a decent keyboard. They have sacrificed quality for aesthetics too much, but m…

If you buy a 10-keyless keyboard they are usually small. You can pick up chinese cloan switches now for extremely cheap right now. This one looks good enough: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Water-Resistant-VicTop-Mechanical-W... IF you're concerned wrap it in some kind of cloth but for under 30 bucks it's not a major concern if you get a decent lifespand out of it. I'd say anything over 2 years is a huge win.

Thanks for alerting me to these, I've kept looking at the proper 10keyless keyboards like Topre [0] thinking "Really? Is it worth that much?".

Be good to try something cheaper, though the single-height enter key would drive me CRAZY.

[0] http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard/realforce-88ub-45g-key-bl.... £192!!

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by deecewan »

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…

Got an XPS15 9550. metal/magnesium body, 4K screen. Really really nice to look at, and a solid work horse. Weighs a bit, but it's sturdy.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by aiur3la »

desireco42 wrote: post #265

I think it is super important to have honest discussion between developers, with as little flame possible about machines we are using. I am using 5 yr old Macbook Air for development, it works well. I always imagined that I will use ThinkPad /w some Linux distribution in future. It is not trivial to use Linux on your laptop. While a lot of things will be faster, browser most likely will be slower and there will not b…

Writing this from a Lenovo X1 running Linux...

The keyboard is great so if you do a lot of writing (e.g. you are a developer) this is a very good machine. But if you are doing other stuff then maybe this is not the machine for you.

With that said, checkout darktable (http://www.darktable.org/ ) which was discussed a few days ago on HN.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by karussell »

tsomctl wrote: post #318
NikolaNovak wrote: post #224

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Errr.... T530 had titanium cover and endoskeleton chassis. My friend routinely walks over his while it's powered on, as a demonstration. How is it possibly an example of a "plastic, flimsy, bendy" laptop? Yes it has screw holes and grills... it's a working-person's laptop :). The new ones don't, because they're becoming more like apple - which means I cannot as easily replace battery, hard drive, memory, etc as I do…

I have a T530 laying on my lap right now. I would call it plastic, flimsy, and bendy. Pick it up by one corner, it creaks and I can feel it flexing. I can see and feel the screen flex as I adjust the angle. Close the screen by pushing down on the top right corner, and it doesn't latch properly because it flexes so much. I can feel and hear it flexing as my left wrist rests on the palm rest while typing. I would not w…

> My next laptop will probably be a Dell Latitude

You'll be disappointed by battery time and sometimes CPU whining/noise. Coming from there and love the price-performance ratio, silence and battery from the T460 now ;)

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Post by timthelion »

pbowyer wrote: post #417
thesandlord wrote: post #370

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Curious, why Vagrant and not Docker? Then you don't need to run a VM, but still get the same isolation.

> Curious, why Vagrant and not Docker? I have a Vagrant/Virtualbox workflow (on Windows host, so Docker not a great option yet) but curious: does Docker have shared folder support - via NFS or other? It's been the getting stuff into & out of the VM that's most painful IMO.

Docker has better than just shared folder support, you can share folders, UNIX SOCKETS!!!, and DEVICES!!!!! And no need for NFS either, its just a bindmount into the container...

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by aiur3la »

matt2000 wrote: post #319

Does Lenovo's history with malware give anyone pause when considering this laptop? I'm just interested in general - I'm a Mac owner now, but used to be a happy thinkpad owner back in the day.

X1 is business series, I think their "malware" was some analytics they installed on the cheap consumer laptops.

(not that it makes it any better)

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by karussell »

ajross wrote: post #279
copperx wrote: post #172

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Decent machines indeed as long as you are close to a wall socket. Linux power management has a lot of growing up to do.

I get a measured 13 hours of work time on my new T460. You're citing intuition which is awfully stale.

Can confirm this (>14h) for T460 with the large battery option and under normal 'working load'

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by vbernat »

sigil wrote: post #309

My Thinkpad X1 Carbon 2nd gen is still going strong 3 years later, but this 5th gen is pretty tempting. Main questions: - Are these "up to 15.5 hours of battery life" numbers purely theoretical? Even brand new, my 2nd gen only got about 6 hours of normal usage. I run Ubuntu so maybe these power saving tweaks are the result of closer hardware integration with Windows? - The mobile broadband option (Qualcomm Snapdragon…

I can't say anything about this specific Qualcomm, but I have used Qualcomm Gobi 2000 and Sierra EM7345 in previous generations of Thinkpad. They both work fine with Linux but their firmwares were buggy as hell. You have to upgrade them as soon as possible. All the problems I ever had were finally solved by upgrading those firmwares. This usually mean you need to keep Windows for that.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by mjolk »

adamweld wrote: post #246
NikolaNovak wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Errr.... T530 had titanium cover and endoskeleton chassis. My friend routinely walks over his while it's powered on, as a demonstration. How is it possibly an example of a "plastic, flimsy, bendy" laptop? Yes it has screw holes and grills... it's a working-person's laptop :). The new ones don't, because they're becoming more like apple - which means I cannot as easily replace battery, hard drive, memory, etc as I do…

Yes, this is Hacker news. Since when did having screws accessible to the user become a bad thing?

It's possible to have screws to access case-internal hardware without a laptop being bulky and hard to look at.

I'm also hungry for a macbook pro alternative (after Apple's courageous decision to remove function keys and magsafe and not meaningfully improve hardware), but I've yet to find something that isn't at best a flimsy clone -- I travel a lot and don't want to sacrifice look and feel for the 30 minutes every three years that I'd need to swap ram/hdd.

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