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Thinkpad P50 - 4K screen, Xenon CPU, 64 GB Memory in a supprisingly nimble package.

e12e 10y ago
Wasn't aware of the p50 (or p70) - too heavy (and expensive) for what I want in a laptop - but aside for price I really like the 4k screen paired with 8 hours of battery use. Some more info for others here: http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-p50 http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-p50 I recently bought a mid-range (according to autocorrect: mild-mannered) ms Surface pro 4, and I am reasonably happy with it. I don't think I'll ever own a regular laptop again - high resolution touch screen with real pen is the only sane graphical environment - something I suspected before I got my Surface (I mean this is not a new idea, it's basically a "dynabook" logically expanded for touch/pen) - and I now feel I've confirmed that it is. Maybe the 360/tent design will win out - I tried a yoga 3, and found the keyboard to be surprisingly bad. Much worse than on my old thinkpad t420s. More importantly it's actually rather nice to be able to have the device (sp4) become a reasonably light tablet for reading (comics or books) and drawing/taking notes with the pen. I love the old IBM thinkpad keyboard so much that I bought one for my desktop. Still works great, but the lack of windows keys is a bit painful in win10. And even in Linux - having a dedicated window manager hot-key other than ctrl/alt (meta) is convenient. Having also played with a Dell xps 13, I think I would've gotten a Dell xps 15 if I were to get a regular laptop today. The 13 is nice, but it being so small I think the 15 would be great. The xeon thinkpad looks a bit heavy (and expensive). The lenovo yoga 900 got good reviews - also for the keyboard - but so did the yoga 3. And I couldn't use the 3 for daily programming etc. The surface 4 keyboard is surprisingly good - currently I've been using it in mostly short burts - but I've also written a few lines of code on it - and for me it's good enough. I'm not aware of any other new device with a better keyboard. I would actually like a water/rainproof device - I guess maybe the surface 5 will be that (hey we need some perks for a needlessly locked down cabinet). And I wish they'd put in a battery three times as big. There are also minor glitches - typical Pc/windows stuff - it feels a bit like a last iteration proto-type. And that's OK - that was my expectation. In sum, I think the sp4 (probably with a docking station) might be one of the best devices to get right now. Possibly the recent lenovo x1 yoga oled tablet too - but I haven't played with one, and I actually suspect Microsoft makes the best keyboards right now. I don't think anyone should rush into tablets yet - there are no good, productive touch environments yet, outside of graphics packages (I suspect Smalltalk and the acme editor are two of the best things we have). But I know we're going to see good touch/tablet experiences built around Linux/bsd (because people will want it, and build it) - and windows will keep improving. We will go from cute to Useful - but I'm guessing real touch/pen uis are a few years out. Needless to say if you want to be part of building the (near) future you should probably get one of these. https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/27/thinkpad-x1-yoga-oled-review/ https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/27/thinkpad-x1-yoga-oled-re...

e12e 10y ago

Wasn't aware of the p50 (or p70) - too heavy (and expensive) for what I want in a laptop - but aside for price I really like the 4k screen paired with 8 hours of battery use. Some more info for others here: http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-p50 http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-p50 I recently bought a mid-range (according to autocorrect: mild-mannered) ms Surface pro 4, and I am reasonably happy with it. I don't think I'll ever own a regular laptop again - high resolution touch screen with real pen is the only sane graphical environment - something I suspected before I got my Surface (I mean this is not a new idea, it's basically a "dynabook" logically expanded for touch/pen) - and I now feel I've confirmed that it is. Maybe the 360/tent design will win out - I tried a yoga 3, and found the keyboard to be surprisingly bad. Much worse than on my old thinkpad t420s. More importantly it's actually rather nice to be able to have the device (sp4) become a reasonably light tablet for reading (comics or books) and drawing/taking notes with the pen. I love the old IBM thinkpad keyboard so much that I bought one for my desktop. Still works great, but the lack of windows keys is a bit painful in win10. And even in Linux - having a dedicated window manager hot-key other than ctrl/alt (meta) is convenient. Having also played with a Dell xps 13, I think I would've gotten a Dell xps 15 if I were to get a regular laptop today. The 13 is nice, but it being so small I think the 15 would be great. The xeon thinkpad looks a bit heavy (and expensive). The lenovo yoga 900 got good reviews - also for the keyboard - but so did the yoga 3. And I couldn't use the 3 for daily programming etc. The surface 4 keyboard is surprisingly good - currently I've been using it in mostly short burts - but I've also written a few lines of code on it - and for me it's good enough. I'm not aware of any other new device with a better keyboard. I would actually like a water/rainproof device - I guess maybe the surface 5 will be that (hey we need some perks for a needlessly locked down cabinet). And I wish they'd put in a battery three times as big. There are also minor glitches - typical Pc/windows stuff - it feels a bit like a last iteration proto-type. And that's OK - that was my expectation. In sum, I think the sp4 (probably with a docking station) might be one of the best devices to get right now. Possibly the recent lenovo x1 yoga oled tablet too - but I haven't played with one, and I actually suspect Microsoft makes the best keyboards right now. I don't think anyone should rush into tablets yet - there are no good, productive touch environments yet, outside of graphics packages (I suspect Smalltalk and the acme editor are two of the best things we have). But I know we're going to see good touch/tablet experiences built around Linux/bsd (because people will want it, and build it) - and windows will keep improving. We will go from cute to Useful - but I'm guessing real touch/pen uis are a few years out. Needless to say if you want to be part of building the (near) future you should probably get one of these. https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/27/thinkpad-x1-yoga-oled-review/ https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/27/thinkpad-x1-yoga-oled-re...