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Switched to a thinkpad x1 carbon just over a month ago, coming from years of macbooks. I'm over the moon. The trackpad isn't as good, but all the things I use t

Switched to a thinkpad x1 carbon just over a month ago, coming from years of macbooks. I'm over the moon. The trackpad isn't as good, but all the things I use the trackpad for are easily replaced with keyboard shortcuts.

andrepd 7y ago
Honestly the clit mouse probably works better than both trackpads.
- secabeen 7y ago
  Yeah, the T-Series keyboards are even better than the X1 Carbon keyboard, and they are a field-replacable unit, and easy to source and replace if they fail or have issues.
- SkyPuncher 7y ago
  Gestures on Macs are irreplaceable for me. Pretty much infinite options for gestures is amazing.
- gilesgate 7y ago
  Might you mean the "nipple"?
  - SahAssar 7y ago
    There are many names for it, and not all of them are based on body parts. Wikipedia seems to have settled on "Pointing stick".
sesteel 7y ago
Same! I installed the Pop! OS Linux distro and everything seems fine. It doesn’t have the battery life I’d hope, but I have a terminal and 32GB memory for less than a new Macbook with less memory. The keyboard works well.
- mushufasa 7y ago
  I'm clinging to my 2015 MBP until it breaks, and it scared me a few times recently. So I bought a backup x230 for ~$100 just in case, and loaded Pop!. To be honest, I think I like Pop! better than OSX. I hadn't used linux distros before because I'm not trying to spend my time fiddling around with the OS, I want things to just work and get out of my way. Pop! does. It's got that miryokuteki hinshitsu. And the ability to use exactly the same packages as our ubuntu webservers has already helped me debug a buildpack issue. I'll certainly consider supporting System76 when I'm next looking for a brand-new computer.
  - PascLeRasc 7y ago
    PopOS is fantastic, and if you're looking to stay in the Ubuntu domain it's by far the best version out there. But your tastes sound a lot like mine, so I'd like to throw out a recommendation for Manjaro, it's incredibly well-polished and the rolling-release is great. It'll likely run a bit faster too since it's Arch-based.
drspacemonkey 7y ago
I went with an XPS13 a couple years ago. Display is great (I'd say on-par with Apple), keyboard is far superior to the new MacBooks, touchpad is about 90% compared to MacBooks, and I'm pretty sure it's thinner. For sure the smaller bezel gives it a smaller footprint. Battery life was pretty decent after autotuning power settings through powertop, too. Better than I'm getting on my current work-issued MacBook, at least. Only real annoyance for me was the wifi, which would vanish off the face of the earth after resuming from suspend. But I was able to replace it with a $15 Intel, a tiny screwdriver, and some patience.
megous 7y ago
I don't get what people have with apple's trackpad. I once got some second hand macbook air or something for work, and it felt like sliding my finger on a fine grained sandpaper. A jarring experience that I didn't like. Pretty much anything else I ever used was more pleasant than that.
- Clubber 7y ago
  They are typically glass smooth, like an iPhone. Someone must have tried cleaning the one you have with some sort of abrasive or something.
  - megous 7y ago
    I doubt it. It would look uneven or left some marks on the chasis nearby, and whatnot. The chasis did have abrasive finish too. I'm quite sensitive to abrasive surfaces, they give me chills. Anyway, maybe I'm misremembering and it was just the chasis. Nevertheless it was a very unpleasant computer.

andrepd 7y ago

Honestly the clit mouse probably works better than both trackpads.

secabeen 7y ago
Yeah, the T-Series keyboards are even better than the X1 Carbon keyboard, and they are a field-replacable unit, and easy to source and replace if they fail or have issues.
SkyPuncher 7y ago
Gestures on Macs are irreplaceable for me. Pretty much infinite options for gestures is amazing.
gilesgate 7y ago
Might you mean the "nipple"?
- SahAssar 7y ago
  There are many names for it, and not all of them are based on body parts. Wikipedia seems to have settled on "Pointing stick".

sesteel 7y ago

Same! I installed the Pop! OS Linux distro and everything seems fine. It doesn’t have the battery life I’d hope, but I have a terminal and 32GB memory for less than a new Macbook with less memory. The keyboard works well.

mushufasa 7y ago
I'm clinging to my 2015 MBP until it breaks, and it scared me a few times recently. So I bought a backup x230 for ~$100 just in case, and loaded Pop!. To be honest, I think I like Pop! better than OSX. I hadn't used linux distros before because I'm not trying to spend my time fiddling around with the OS, I want things to just work and get out of my way. Pop! does. It's got that miryokuteki hinshitsu. And the ability to use exactly the same packages as our ubuntu webservers has already helped me debug a buildpack issue. I'll certainly consider supporting System76 when I'm next looking for a brand-new computer.
- PascLeRasc 7y ago
  PopOS is fantastic, and if you're looking to stay in the Ubuntu domain it's by far the best version out there. But your tastes sound a lot like mine, so I'd like to throw out a recommendation for Manjaro, it's incredibly well-polished and the rolling-release is great. It'll likely run a bit faster too since it's Arch-based.

drspacemonkey 7y ago

I went with an XPS13 a couple years ago. Display is great (I'd say on-par with Apple), keyboard is far superior to the new MacBooks, touchpad is about 90% compared to MacBooks, and I'm pretty sure it's thinner. For sure the smaller bezel gives it a smaller footprint. Battery life was pretty decent after autotuning power settings through powertop, too. Better than I'm getting on my current work-issued MacBook, at least. Only real annoyance for me was the wifi, which would vanish off the face of the earth after resuming from suspend. But I was able to replace it with a $15 Intel, a tiny screwdriver, and some patience.

megous 7y ago

I don't get what people have with apple's trackpad. I once got some second hand macbook air or something for work, and it felt like sliding my finger on a fine grained sandpaper. A jarring experience that I didn't like. Pretty much anything else I ever used was more pleasant than that.

Clubber 7y ago
They are typically glass smooth, like an iPhone. Someone must have tried cleaning the one you have with some sort of abrasive or something.
- megous 7y ago
  I doubt it. It would look uneven or left some marks on the chasis nearby, and whatnot. The chasis did have abrasive finish too. I'm quite sensitive to abrasive surfaces, they give me chills. Anyway, maybe I'm misremembering and it was just the chasis. Nevertheless it was a very unpleasant computer.