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Still using the x220 as my every day personal notebook. At work I have the x230 with the new keyboard - it's not as good as the old one still in the x220 but i
by VvR-Ox 8y ago
Still using the x220 as my every day personal notebook.
At work I have the x230 with the new keyboard - it's not as good as the old one still in the x220 but it's way better than let's say the new macbook keyboards.
The sad thing is that the x220 doesn't compete doing stuff with many VM's or consumer things like videos with high-res.
But I can totally live with that and use it for everything else with the following specs & setup:
- 16GB RAM
- 256GB SSD
- i5-2540M CPU @ 2.60GHz
- extended battery (good for holding it while carrying around)
- i3wm (it's awesome how much you can do with few resources)
- programming/writing etc. with VIM (also saves a lot compared to an eclipse/intellij)
It's definitely not the PC you want a full fledged desktop environment on and you shouldn't bother doing video stuff etc. but for everything else it's just perfect and I wouldn't want to give it away as long as I can.
The x230 is ok but I don't have so much love for it, can't explain what exactly I miss most but it's not the TP experience I was searching for all the years.
My next project is an old x200 that will be refurbished and put to test with some BSD OS (I heard it's also quite interesting and easy on old hardware).
P.S.: The trackpads suck hell and I only use the red nub on TPs. The only trackpad I ever found useful was on a MBP (some time around 2016 I think) but they managed to destroy that experience like they did with their crappy keyboards :-P