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Re: We Need a Better PC

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Post by Tharkun »

ekianjo wrote: post #634
hsitz wrote: post #556

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Sounds about right, I have 6 cell in my x220 (with Win7) and I'd guess its life is around 2.5 hours with those settings. It's short enough that I don't feel comfortable using it on the go, keep x220 at home almost always plugged in to AC. The battery difference between it and the UX305 is huge.

Thanks, good to know I'm in the average then. I wonder if the newer Lenovo (x250 for example) have much better battery life (on Linux) than the x220.

The x250 has great battery life. The keyboard is a little better than the X240, but not as good as the X220 or even the X230. Some of the keys are not full size. The function keys are garbage by default, but there's a persistent Fn lock (might be a BIOS setting, don't recall).

Performance wise it's very nice. Screen is decent, too. My only complaint is the that the keyboard has a bunch of non-full size keys. End and Insert are on a single key. Someone should be shot for that.

Re: We Need a Better PC

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Post by Tharkun »

The Lenovo website is one of the worst websites I've ever visited. For instance, if you try to filter laptops by memory, and tick the 16GB box, you won't find any Thinkpads. Only Yoga crap. Even though the X250 can ship with 16GB... Bunch of wankers are so incompetent it's a miracle they sell any laptops at all.

Re: We Need a Better PC

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Post by scholia »

spronkey wrote: post #688
scholia wrote: post #663

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Nope. Latitude is the entry-level business line, then there's Optiplex, with Precison workstations on top. There's also Vostro, which is the small/home office line. I wasn't making a comment on build quality, just on Dell's branding and pricing.

The Vostro is their entry-level business line... Optiplex and Precision are desktop brands only. Latitude ~= Optiplex for laptops :)

> The Vostro is their entry-level business line...

The soho bit was what Jeff Clarke (1) told me, and he runs Dell's PC business. Yes, I have it on tape ;-)

> Optiplex and Precision are desktop brands only

There are Precision desktops and laptops....

(1) http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/vn/bios/jeffrey-clarke

(2) http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/workstations

Re: We Need a Better PC

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Post by 131noobwithidea »

Give me USB-D (the worldwide standart single connection source for energy and data), a now suitable cpu with workaday ram - and halve the ("full") energy consumtion every 5 years, and you'll find a periodically buyer in me. Better: double the perfomance every 5 years (shure) with halved energy consumption. Need a OS ? - shure, every 5 years but without the 'Kinderkrankheiten'

Re: We Need a Better PC

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Post by coldtea »

oblio wrote: post #679
coldtea wrote: post #660

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Yes, if they have juvenile clothing sense. They can also wear baseball hats and other things -- after all it's a free country.

I don't live in the "free country" (I'm guessing you mean the US). There's more to shorts than this: http://www.sandalandsoxer.co.uk/linus+andrew.jpg I'm from Europe and especially during the summer you can see people dressed like this: http://www.menfashionhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/men-... Some of them even go to work like this, especially if they don't work directly with customers and their companies don't…

The latter is barely better though. Gives the "still lives with his parents" or "just out of college" vibe...

Re: We Need a Better PC

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Post by JadeNB »

natch wrote: post #336
dcposch wrote: post #56

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> Rage score 9/10. LOL. Yes, that's fair. I was frustrated with Lenovo's website for all the reasons I described. > Bonus points for calling apple website an icon of web design when it weights almost 100mb. Apple's website is an icon of web design. It's 100MB not because of needless JS & ad tracker bloat, but because of high res images. Just look at it. It's gorgeous: http://www.apple.com/macbook/

What bothered me was this paragraph: >Apple has great design Functional design. A lot of haters misunderstand it as style. >but Uh-oh >they sell things that are locked down, both physically and in software. OK, I guess you read that on the Internet. But you should question it. When I bought my first Mac the first thing I did before buying it was call Apple support and check whether I could open it and upgrade the har…

> > but their software is getting worse.

> You read this on the internet too. Please.

This (along with the ad hominem part of the rest of your post) is uncharitable. The GP is hardly alone in thinking that Apple software is getting worse; I think it, too, and not just out of conformity—if anything I'm frustrated by not being able to find enough people on the Internet who agree with my longing for the good old days of Snow Leopard.

Re: We Need a Better PC

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Post by stock_toaster »

spronkey wrote: post #650
PhasmaFelis wrote: post #250

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Have you tried using an anti-glare (matte) screen protector? I haven't, but they're reasonably priced and it seems like an easy product to get right.

From my experience the matte films are pretty poor, they really do reduce the visual quality of the display to far worse than the actual Matte displays

Agreed. Most of them I have seen range from really terrible to only just crappy.

Re: We Need a Better PC

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Post by frik »

I am stuck with Win 7 world. Microsoft turned against consumer by serving them subscription based products Office365 and Windows 10 that also spy on consumers - no thank you! They force others to over only Win10 ready notebooks, with locked down UEFI BIOS and crypto module - try to boot Linux, good luck.
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