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I've been using a Thinkpad X1 Carbon for 2 years (I pre-ordered one and then upgraded it a year later). I have nothing but good things to say about it. I'm an

I've been using a Thinkpad X1 Carbon for 2 years (I pre-ordered one and then upgraded it a year later). I have nothing but good things to say about it. I'm an avid user of the Trackpoint and only use the mousepad for scrolling so can't comment on the quality of the mousepad... Otherwise, the machine is perfect. Build quality is good, performance is fine and it's got a nice sized screen. Mini-DisplayPort. Excellent keyboard layout. Bog standard hardware, so everything is well supported by Linux. I have a hard time imagining a more suitable laptop for Linux.

gerner 12y ago
I also have an X1 Carbon, been running linux flawlessly for over a year, probably close to 2. I love it. It's great. I got some bleeding edge graphics drivers and play Strike Suit Zero without issues (but my standards are low) when I'm not having it do map reduce jobs :) That said, we've got some Lenovo T440s in the office that come with a wifi card (Realtek RTL8192EE) that's unsupported by ubuntu at the moment (there's an active bug at ubuntu [1] that walks through the issues and has workarounds) [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1239578 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1239578
nextos 12y ago
Sadly they botched the new one by introducing those horrid function keys.
w1ntermute 12y ago
Same here, the X1 Carbon (2013) is the best Linux laptop I've found to date. Unfortunately, the 2014 refresh completely screwed things up with both the TrackPoint[0] and the keyboard[1]. 0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXa0XzNvuZU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXa0XzNvuZU 1. http://arstechnica.com/staff/2014/01/stop-trying-to-innovate-keyboards-youre-just-making-them-worse/ http://arstechnica.com/staff/2014/01/stop-trying-to-innovate...
nfmangano 12y ago
I got the Carbon X1 Touch myself, and absolutely love it. I only have two complaints: (1) my battery only lasts for 2.5 hours in linux on a good day, while it lasts over 6 hours in windows, and (2) I develop touch-based apps, and ubuntu doesn't broadcast touch events to its browser. The system itself can receive touch events (if you tap three fingers on a window, it triggers the move mode), but the browsers themselves only receive mouse events. The result is that I cannot use pinch-and-zoom on touch-enabled webapps.
- ShinyCyril 12y ago
  I had similar problems with battery life. Take a look at TLP [1] - my battery life improved dramatically after installing it (mostly on default settings). [1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XXVnP0YgIfAJ:www.kianryan.co.uk/2013/07/x1-carbon-ubuntu-13-04/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XXVnP0Y...

gerner 12y ago

I also have an X1 Carbon, been running linux flawlessly for over a year, probably close to 2. I love it. It's great. I got some bleeding edge graphics drivers and play Strike Suit Zero without issues (but my standards are low) when I'm not having it do map reduce jobs :) That said, we've got some Lenovo T440s in the office that come with a wifi card (Realtek RTL8192EE) that's unsupported by ubuntu at the moment (there's an active bug at ubuntu [1] that walks through the issues and has workarounds) [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1239578 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1239578

nextos 12y ago

Sadly they botched the new one by introducing those horrid function keys.

w1ntermute 12y ago

Same here, the X1 Carbon (2013) is the best Linux laptop I've found to date. Unfortunately, the 2014 refresh completely screwed things up with both the TrackPoint[0] and the keyboard[1]. 0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXa0XzNvuZU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXa0XzNvuZU 1. http://arstechnica.com/staff/2014/01/stop-trying-to-innovate-keyboards-youre-just-making-them-worse/ http://arstechnica.com/staff/2014/01/stop-trying-to-innovate...

nfmangano 12y ago

I got the Carbon X1 Touch myself, and absolutely love it. I only have two complaints: (1) my battery only lasts for 2.5 hours in linux on a good day, while it lasts over 6 hours in windows, and (2) I develop touch-based apps, and ubuntu doesn't broadcast touch events to its browser. The system itself can receive touch events (if you tap three fingers on a window, it triggers the move mode), but the browsers themselves only receive mouse events. The result is that I cannot use pinch-and-zoom on touch-enabled webapps.

ShinyCyril 12y ago
I had similar problems with battery life. Take a look at TLP [1] - my battery life improved dramatically after installing it (mostly on default settings). [1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XXVnP0YgIfAJ:www.kianryan.co.uk/2013/07/x1-carbon-ubuntu-13-04/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XXVnP0Y...