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I switched from a MBP to a Lenovo X1 Carbon and the keyboard is so much better on the X1, it’s on another level. Lost macOS though, which, in the end, didn’t m

by davnn 8y ago

I switched from a MBP to a Lenovo X1 Carbon and the keyboard is so much better on the X1, it’s on another level. Lost macOS though, which, in the end, didn’t matter as much as I thought it would.

riffraff 8y ago
how does the touchpad compare? I feel I've been spolied by apple's touchpads, when I had to use another laptop I wanted to cry.
- davnn 8y ago
  It’s definitely worse but not as bad as non-MB touchpads used to be. Plus, it’s motivating to use more keyboard shortcuts.
  - pimeys 8y ago
    And when you learn to use the Lenovo TrackPoint, there is no going back. Having a T25, X1C5 and X1C6 in the family and the keyboard+mouse experience is so much ahead of everybody else.
    - hultner 8y ago
      Used a Thinkpad (T550-something, retina screen) for a couple of years and can’t say I ever got used to or liked the track point, the touchpad had “palm detection“ but it was horrible and I ended up using a toggle key for the touchpad instead. The nipple fell of constantly which was incredibly annoying. The keyboard had crammed print screen next to space causing numberous misclicks and annoying shifts between laptop and external keyboard, the official dock didn’t even work oob and had to be patched via a bootable dos-usb, half the times I docked and undocked the picture stopped working completely forcing me to reboot via ssh from my phone if it was alive at all, the picture quality and workability in sunlight was horrible on the badly lit matte display. Yet it’s still the best non Apple laptop I’ve used, however after a few years I went back to the new MBP with TB and it’s been a true pleasure in comparison.
      - hultner 8y ago
        Oh yeah and the soft touch finish is nice at first but it starts to peel after about 2 years of use.
userbinator 8y ago
Lost macOS though, which, in the end, didn’t matter as much as I thought it would. https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/99-perfect-sierra-10-12-6-on-thinkpad-x1-carbon-5th-gen-with-dual-boot-unchanged-win7.237922/ https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/99-perfect-sierra-10-12-6... Or you could run it in a VM. I had to test something with macOS not long ago (not a regular Mac user) and was pleasantly surprised when, after doing a small amount of configuration, VirtualBox booted up from the ISO and installed a macOS VM that ran pretty much perfectly.
- proto-n 8y ago
  No hardware accelerated graphics in the vm though for mac os afaik, which can be painful even if you try and turn off most animations. No?

by davnn 8y ago

I switched from a MBP to a Lenovo X1 Carbon and the keyboard is so much better on the X1, it’s on another level. Lost macOS though, which, in the end, didn’t matter as much as I thought it would.

riffraff 8y ago

how does the touchpad compare? I feel I've been spolied by apple's touchpads, when I had to use another laptop I wanted to cry.

davnn 8y ago
It’s definitely worse but not as bad as non-MB touchpads used to be. Plus, it’s motivating to use more keyboard shortcuts.
- pimeys 8y ago
  And when you learn to use the Lenovo TrackPoint, there is no going back. Having a T25, X1C5 and X1C6 in the family and the keyboard+mouse experience is so much ahead of everybody else.
  - hultner 8y ago
    Used a Thinkpad (T550-something, retina screen) for a couple of years and can’t say I ever got used to or liked the track point, the touchpad had “palm detection“ but it was horrible and I ended up using a toggle key for the touchpad instead. The nipple fell of constantly which was incredibly annoying. The keyboard had crammed print screen next to space causing numberous misclicks and annoying shifts between laptop and external keyboard, the official dock didn’t even work oob and had to be patched via a bootable dos-usb, half the times I docked and undocked the picture stopped working completely forcing me to reboot via ssh from my phone if it was alive at all, the picture quality and workability in sunlight was horrible on the badly lit matte display. Yet it’s still the best non Apple laptop I’ve used, however after a few years I went back to the new MBP with TB and it’s been a true pleasure in comparison.
    - hultner 8y ago
      Oh yeah and the soft touch finish is nice at first but it starts to peel after about 2 years of use.

userbinator 8y ago

Lost macOS though, which, in the end, didn’t matter as much as I thought it would. https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/99-perfect-sierra-10-12-6-on-thinkpad-x1-carbon-5th-gen-with-dual-boot-unchanged-win7.237922/ https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/99-perfect-sierra-10-12-6... Or you could run it in a VM. I had to test something with macOS not long ago (not a regular Mac user) and was pleasantly surprised when, after doing a small amount of configuration, VirtualBox booted up from the ISO and installed a macOS VM that ran pretty much perfectly.

proto-n 8y ago
No hardware accelerated graphics in the vm though for mac os afaik, which can be painful even if you try and turn off most animations. No?