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Deepest apologies; I meant to say grille. Regardless of the flow direction, I am constantly blocking the aperture with my legs or blanket. The touchpad frequen

Deepest apologies; I meant to say grille. Regardless of the flow direction, I am constantly blocking the aperture with my legs or blanket. The touchpad frequently misidentifies movement as taps, something that hasn't been a problem for me on the Macbook Pro, the X1 Carbon, or the Microsoft Surface. The keyboard keys aren't too bad, but could have a sharper inflection point in the force vs travel and also be little bit less wobbly. Neither of these are fatal flaws, but are enough, I think, to call them mediocre. Do you also find that the computer forgets its DDR5 training pretty regularly and takes a long time to boot? For me I think it's ~1-in-10 boots.

GeorgeHahn 3y ago
I had a hang that sounds similar to yours the other day, and it appeared to retrain on the next boot. Does that line up with what you've seen?
- zbrozek 3y ago
  It seems to retrain more often after a hang, but not every time.
cassepipe 3y ago
I don't think it has ever been a good idea to rest a laptop on a blanket on even laps for more than a few minutes... Anyways, that's been a concern on all my previous laptops. I bought a second laptop platform-cushion for my legs/bedtime and it's much better no matter the laptop. Same for touchpad issues, my big palms sides have always been the source of misidentified clicks. The way I solved it on linux was by making it narrower in software. It take a one line straightforward command to do so. I really like the keyboard I must say. It's much better than my previous laptops (that were admittedly cheaper) I don't have any boot issues on my model so I don't know about a boot problem sorry
- zbrozek 3y ago
  I'm good about keeping my wrists straight; it's not a palm problem. I very frequently want to tap and then move, but end up erroneously dragging. Regarding the blanket; it's cool indoors here and so blankets are a fact of life. My other laptops have no issue with this because grilles aren't on the bottom. They usually draw or exhaust from the hinge and do the opposite from the sides. Also it's called a laptop, being on a lap is an expected use-case.

GeorgeHahn 3y ago

I had a hang that sounds similar to yours the other day, and it appeared to retrain on the next boot. Does that line up with what you've seen?

zbrozek 3y ago
It seems to retrain more often after a hang, but not every time.

cassepipe 3y ago

I don't think it has ever been a good idea to rest a laptop on a blanket on even laps for more than a few minutes... Anyways, that's been a concern on all my previous laptops. I bought a second laptop platform-cushion for my legs/bedtime and it's much better no matter the laptop. Same for touchpad issues, my big palms sides have always been the source of misidentified clicks. The way I solved it on linux was by making it narrower in software. It take a one line straightforward command to do so. I really like the keyboard I must say. It's much better than my previous laptops (that were admittedly cheaper) I don't have any boot issues on my model so I don't know about a boot problem sorry

zbrozek 3y ago
I'm good about keeping my wrists straight; it's not a palm problem. I very frequently want to tap and then move, but end up erroneously dragging. Regarding the blanket; it's cool indoors here and so blankets are a fact of life. My other laptops have no issue with this because grilles aren't on the bottom. They usually draw or exhaust from the hinge and do the opposite from the sides. Also it's called a laptop, being on a lap is an expected use-case.