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+1 for Thinkpad. I have an older yoga from Best buy back when they still came with discrete graphics. Poor thing has taken a beating from me but still works gre
by ajflores1604 7y ago
+1 for Thinkpad. I have an older yoga from Best buy back when they still came with discrete graphics. Poor thing has taken a beating from me but still works great. And thinkpads in general have great support for Linux. Even for the pen input, which I use more than I thought I would. Usually for signing documents or quickly mapping out an idea.
Also, they're so ubiquitous, I was able to go to several local tech recycling places and pick up spare chargers for super cheap. I dont stress about keeping track of the charger now. Just leave one in my bag, one by my desk, one in bed, one by the couch. It's a small thing but it's changed my workflow a lot. Let's me treat the laptop more as a free mobile device and less like a clunky combo laptop with rats nest to awkwardly carry around.
Also big fan of the track point and the secondary buttons at the top of the track pad. It's a meme for a lot of ppl but they definitely have their place. When in the flow of typing, it helps a lot to not have to move your hands back and forth off the keyboard. And most importantly, having a middle click button right below the space bar makes it dead simple and quickly to open up a set of links in a new tabs. That's a functionality that would be hard for me to give up by going to another platform.
As for gripes, the one thing that makes me jealous of laptops like the MacBook, surface book, and matebook x, is the screen aspect ratio. For being "productivity machines" I wish Lenovo would put a 3:2 screen that gave more vertical space to see more code or spreadsheet cells. It's absurd to me that they still have consumption oriented 16:9. It's especially painful when using the tablet mode in portrait. The only thing I can do is full screen an application if it really starts to bother me.