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You know, it's not in the same class as a macbook air, but my Thinkpad x61s has been my tiny performant champ for 4 years now. Roughly the size of the netbooks
by juiceandjuice 14y ago
You know, it's not in the same class as a macbook air, but my Thinkpad x61s has been my tiny performant champ for 4 years now. Roughly the size of the netbooks of the time, but tons more power than a netbook and the initial macbook air means it's still powerful enough for anything I throw at it. The one bummer has been screen resolution, but I still get 6 hours battery life on it (I did have to replace the battery once), and it was just a bit over three pounds with the larger battery.
- protomyth 14y agoI will say that Apple did a good job on the screen resolution of the Air line, although the lack of 8gb option for memory is a pain. My biggest problem with non-Apple "ultrabooks" (thx Intel) is the weird off-center keyboard / touchpad. It is really hard to find a keyboard / touchpad that is actually centered. Never-mind Sony putting a numeric keypad on theirs. How am I supposed to sit centered to the screen and type properly? It looks like that thinkpad is centered but it is so hard to tell with the angled shots.
- trentmb 14y agoThinkpad x120e here, the touchpad is centered if that helps at all.
- protomyth 14y agoThat looks like a winner. Saw a bunch of HPs and Acers that have a weird offset. Nice to see some company actually has people who type working there.
- marekmroz 14y agoI also have the x61s, there is no touchpad on that model, just the trackpoint. Which, by the way, is centered. My dream laptop would be a macbook air with a trackpoint and top notch linux support... I am curious to see what x230 will look like.
- r00fus 14y agoHow do you get by with the trackpoint/trackpad? (my current thinkpad has both)... my experience has been that the trackpoint still (to this day over a dozen+ years after it was introduced) still exhibits ghost motion, and the trackpads on PCs all still suck at palm rejection and responsiveness while typing. When I want an super-portable laptop in "lap mode", I need the pointing device that doesn't suck. The only one that delivers is the Macbook. With all my PCs I've needed to connect a mouse for decent productivity, which really sucks for portability.
- gcb 14y agoyep, after you use the clitmouse of a loooong time (mostly after I play a round of league of legends) and you try to move the cursor just slightly, it will ghost a little down or up. just pressing the red cap once will stop it until after the next game session. but it's a damn small price to pay for the clitmouse. no self respecting programmer should use any other mouse device. my bottom touchpad is configured in X to be 100% scrolling
- saucerful 14y ago> my bottom touchpad is configured in X to be 100% scrolling hey, that's a good good idea. i have always just had mine disabled. thanks!
- w1ntermute 14y ago> my bottom touchpad is configured in X to be 100% scrolling How exactly did you set this up? I tried Googling for it, but nothing relevant came up.
- tedunangst 14y agoYou want to remap the axis. This may help. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint#Configuration_using_the_X_server_.28xorg.conf.29 http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoin...
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- gcb 14y agonobody is immune to marketing. Not even linus torvald. thinkpads are ok (if you stay in the T series) and asus eeepc1000 was years ahead of any mac at the time. heck the air is a copy of that machine with a less plastic-ey case. but neither asus nor lenovo buy billboards in times square and hollywood blvd, or center fold wired. anyone that swears to buy apple after researching for the best is just a sad victim of marketing. Sadder as they will never accept it.
- sceptre 14y agoNo wonder you are getting downvoted. HN and sadly the majority of Mac users are 'wanna bes'. Paying more money and justifying it by attacking users who speak the truth is their forte.
- batista 14y ago>anyone that swears to buy apple after researching for the best is just a sad victim of marketing. Sadder as they will never accept it. The quality is not about the cpu/ram/hd specs (which are mighty fine in the MBA). Are those other computers as thin? As light? Some are? Cool. Are those also made of a solid chunk of aluminum? No? Bad. Do they have the highest quality touchpad? No? Bad. Do they feature a very usable "chicklet" keyboard? No? Bad? Do they have the same resolution and display quality? No? But it's telling you say that "air is a copy of" eeepc1000. It's nothing like eeepc1000. Actually all the "media pundits" were waiting and asking Apple to produce a netbook like it, and they never did, they made the MBA.
- MattRogish 14y agoThe eeepc1000 was a terrible, terrible device. I have one in my closet. The Airs of the time were/are considerably better.
- pbreit 14y agoI got a free eeepc1000, hated it and couldn't even give it away. Awful, awful device.
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- sceptre 14y agoDitto...
- technomancy 14y agoIf it weren't for the brightness (no LED backlight) issue, I would have a stockpile of Thinkpad X61s in my closet because I would want to use that machine forever. As it is I'm terrified that something will happen to my X200s and I won't be able to buy anything without a 16:9 screen.
- juiceandjuice 14y agoyeah the x200 series was a step up in the display. I had gotten the high brightness screen on the x61s which meant that it wasn't as horrible as the other one. I've dropped my x61s three or four times now from substantial heights, and a little bit of the plastic is cracked and lately it seems like the cables to the screen might be getting sketchy, but after I pulled apart all the keys and cleaned it out really good a couple of weeks ago it still feels (and looks) new. It's the perfect laptop for traveling at this point, enough power and battery life and low enough weight for anything, but it's old enough that if something happened to it, it wouldn't be devastating.
- rebelnz 14y agoI swear by this model too. Just swap out the drive for a decent ssd!
- initself 14y agoThis will even bring an X41 back to life.
- revorad 14y agoI'm working on modding some Thinkpads (X61, X121e, possibly X220 if the price works out) and selling them with Ubuntu pre-installed and fully tested. If anyone's interested, please sign up here - http://giniji.com/ubuntu_laptops.html http://giniji.com/ubuntu_laptops.html.
- there 14y agoWhat are you modifying on them besides the operating system?
- revorad 14y agoThe hardware spec will be better - SSDs, maxed out RAM - and at a better price than Lenovo offers. The machines will be fully tested to make sure important things like graphics work well, battery life is maintained and suspend/wake works reliably. You will also be able to choose your desktop (Unity, Gnome, KDE, XFCE) and ask for additional software to be installed (like Dropbox, not Norton Anti Virus ;-). Please check back on the site next week and the full product details will be up.
- minikomi 14y agoWhile learning my way around arch, I got a very cheap second hand "Let's note" panasonic notebook[1]. The screen is, admittedly, pretty naff but as a small lug around which I don't care too much about, it does its job admirably. Debating whether it's worth it to stick an SSD in it now I splurged and got a macbook air.. [1]http://panasonic.jp/pc/ http://panasonic.jp/pc/
- SamReidHughes 14y agoYou're giving me curiosity. What model did you get, when did you get it, and how much did it cost?
- minikomi 14y agoUh oh! Haha.. It's a cf-r4 I got for under 15000 yen off of Yahoo auction Japan because it didn't have a charger. Went to akihabara and got a replacement.. Photo: http://instagr.am/p/ZEKYG/ http://instagr.am/p/ZEKYG/
- tuxguy 14y agoI think this year's macbook air refresh from apple based on Intel's newest Sandy Bridge cpus will be Lege-wait_for_it-Dairy :)