ThinkPad X1 Carbon • Hacker News Board

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by Hydraulix989 » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 12:30 AM UTC

old-gregg wrote: post #155

josteink wrote: post #140

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> They're always some sort of plastic, feel flimsy and bendy The Carbon X1 is made from carbon fiber. It super-robust and light-weight at the same time. It feels light years ahead of the super-heavy aluminium-nonsense Apple is trying to peddle. Count me happy my laptop doesn't double as a bench-press.

When we got accepted into YCombinator back in 2011 (Mailgun), I remember PG looking at our Thinkpads running Linux and asking something along the lines of "what's wrong with you?" , with almost [1] all YC teams using Macbooks. I wonder if it's the Valley culture? There is no way a Macbook can compete with a proper Thinkpad [2] for programmer productivity: the keyboard, the UltraNav, the swappable batteries (you can f…

Hm, half the photos on the YC website front page have Thinkpads.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by itaysk » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 8:55 PM UTC

aiur3la wrote: post #436

itaysk wrote: post #205

I have recently upgraded form 4 year old X1 Carbon to new X1 Yoga. Bottom line is I'd recommend the X1 Yoga over the Carbon. Here is my original X1 Carbon review: http://blog.itaysk.com/2013/05/04/lenovo-x1-carbon-touch-rev... And here are my thoughts on the X1 Yoga: http://blog.itaysk.com/2016/12/30/from-lenovo-x1-carbon-to-l...

High DPI is still half baked in Windows. I found this comment hilarious given who your employer is...

Just to be clear - I do work for Microsoft, but have nothing to do with Windows, so I don't have any influence on it.

I don't find any problem criticising what's wrong and commending what's right. I do that openly with "my employer" products, and the competition as well.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by tvon » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 3:57 AM UTC

DCoder wrote: post #510

tvon wrote: post #489

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If you care about isolation and reproduction then you're using a VM anyway and the host OS is completely irrelevant.

Using a VM is the reason to use Vagrant.

Yes, I know.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by balakk » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 10:13 AM UTC

ElijahLynn wrote: post #526

balakk wrote: post #327

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The Carbon is touchscreen, just not a convertible.

The X1 Carbon (4th gen) mentioned in this thread is not a touchscreen, they don't seem to offer a Carbon Touch anymore. It appears the X1 Yoga is essentially the Carbon Touch.

Agreed, I was wrong. I have a 2015 X1 Carbon, which has a touch-screen. I'm surprised they removed this, it's quite decent. But it is unlikely that I'll miss it.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by scholia » Wed, Jan 04, 2017, 2:00 PM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #523

scholia wrote: post #521

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Got any research to show that? Or should I just assume that your personal opinion is worth more than everybody elses'?

You're the one making the affirmative statement that high travel keyboards - which the whole market is moving away from - are functionally better than low travel ones. You prove that there is any real rather than purely subjective benefit.

The whole market isn't moving away from high-travel keyboards. In fact, there's a lot of interest in them, and they are generally preferred by gamers.

How do you explain the widespread perception that laptop keyboards used to be good but are now crappy?

> real rather than purely subjective benefit

Subjective benefits are real benefits.

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by ElijahLynn » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 4:58 AM UTC

svennek wrote: post #396

AlexC04 wrote: post #354

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> The Carbon X1 is made from carbon fiber. It super-robust and light-weight at the same time. If I'm honest I have no Idea why there is an ad for the X1 on hackernews today. The page itself is 404-ing for me. That said, I held an X1 carbon last september when shopping for a new laptop with my girlfriend. It was a fucking glorious machine. In the end we wound up buying the lenevo yoga because it comes with an i7, SSD,…

Then you should try the X1 Yoga - basically an X1 Carbon 4th gen with the yoga hinges and a wacom digitizer and a glorious screen.. It has been my main laptop since release and it is by far the best laptop I ever owned...

5th gen X1 Yoga just released. MMMM, it has USB-C now, aka finally a real docking solution. Also has WiGig but I am not sure how that is.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-yo...

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by ElijahLynn » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 5:00 AM UTC

balakk wrote: post #534

ElijahLynn wrote: post #526

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The X1 Carbon (4th gen) mentioned in this thread is not a touchscreen, they don't seem to offer a Carbon Touch anymore. It appears the X1 Yoga is essentially the Carbon Touch.

Agreed, I was wrong. I have a 2015 X1 Carbon, which has a touch-screen. I'm surprised they removed this, it's quite decent. But it is unlikely that I'll miss it.

So they basically just renamed the X1 Carbon Touch to a X1 Yoga but it is a convertible so I guess that is why.

Anyways, the 5th gen Yoga was just announced at CES 2017!!

It is pretty impressive and is my new dream machine, http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-yo...

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by ElijahLynn » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 5:00 AM UTC

ElijahLynn wrote: post #527

zem wrote: post #250

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nice! hope that comes to the next x1 yoga model too

Yes, I just came to the conclusion that the X1 Yoga is my ideal laptop but I am going to hold out and wait for the next gen version so it has USB-C charging.

And the X1 Yoga 5th gen was just announced at CES 2017 and has USB-C and more!!!

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-yo...

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by ElijahLynn » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 5:06 AM UTC

ElijahLynn wrote: post #104

What happened to the Carbon touch? This would be my next computer except it doesn't have touch. As a developer I use Chrome dev tools emulator with my Thinkpad W510 to perform touch testing. Plus it is fantastic for annotating presentations (Ubuntu, Compiz Annotate plugin).

Okay, here we go, 5th generation Thinkpad X1 Carbon just announced at CES 2017. This is a dream machine.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-yo...

16GB ram, 14" WQHD OLED Touchscreen (300 nit), 1TB SSD, Intel® Core™ i7 vPro, Trackpoint (touchstick), retractable keyboard in convertible mode, rechargeable & dockable pen, WWAN (Project Fi free data only sim), touch fingerprint (not the swipey kind), Thunderbolt 3, USB-C (docking is amazing now), WiGig docking.

All starting at 3 lbs. (my W510 is 6 lbs w/extended battery).

Mmmmmmmmm, now that is a sexy machine!!! Only thing better is if it would come with Ubuntu pre-installed and everything working out of the box.

I am gonna get one of these and install Ubuntu or Apricity on it!

Re: ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Post by ElijahLynn » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 8:23 PM UTC

ElijahLynn wrote: post #538

ElijahLynn wrote: post #527

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Yes, I just came to the conclusion that the X1 Yoga is my ideal laptop but I am going to hold out and wait for the next gen version so it has USB-C charging.

And the X1 Yoga 5th gen was just announced at CES 2017 and has USB-C and more!!! http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-yo...

I posted a new thread for the ThinkPad X1 Yoga (2017) here http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-yo...