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I can tell you which one not to buy. System76. Horrible keyboard and even though they recently re-designed the entire keyboard, the mousepad is still so large t
by codegeek 13y ago
I can tell you which one not to buy. System76. Horrible keyboard and even though they recently re-designed the entire keyboard, the mousepad is still so large that it moves the cursor while you type because your palm touches the wide mousepad while typing. And Yes, that even when you have enabled the option "disable mousepad while typing". Horrible customer service. They will not refund the laptop for any reason. That is their policy. I did not know that. Really disappointed with them.
I will look at thinkpad or even a Dell XPS to be honest.
- phaus 13y agoOne of system 76's employees was on reedit a while back telling people that their ultrabook's touchpad was 'hands down' better than Apple's. From what I've observed, the only people who can use sys76's keyboards are those of us that can't type more than 40wpm.
- cik 13y agoInteresting - I'm the reverse. I was just mandated with a "thou shalt" a System76 (Galaga UltraPro) by a client. I really, really wasn't looking forward to it. Now, there are a bunch of things I hate like the trackpad size/position, and cheap plastic exterior... but other than that I've been shocked at how well it's performing. I've typed a few rather long reports on it getting great key rates in both LibreOffice and Office (under Wine). Now that being said, the trackpad is truly awful. My dream would be to replace that sucker with the placement on "Darter Ultrathin". That one looks like it has great placement.
- jamesbritt 13y agoI will look at thinkpad Sadly, the newer Thinkpads have been changed to use the giant trackpad and dropped the dedicated trackpoint mouse buttons. Plus most seems to have the "adpative" keyboard. Lenovo seems to want to be HP.