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It's sad no manufacturer steps in and fills in the relatively big niche ThinkPads used to occupy: * Utilitarian but beautiful designs: http://www.geocities.jp/
by nextos 12y ago
It's sad no manufacturer steps in and fills in the relatively big niche ThinkPads used to occupy:
* Utilitarian but beautiful designs: http://www.geocities.jp/kenjin_keyboard/butterfly_p07.jpg http://www.geocities.jp/kenjin_keyboard/butterfly_p07.jpg
* Great input devices (mouse and keyboard)
* High density square screens
* Upgradeable Linux/BSD friendly hardware
With the advent of great, cheap ARM processors and Coreboot getting ported to ARM, the barries of entry should be a bit lower. Frankly, while Apple tends to produce great hardware, they are far too optimised for consumers vs developers. E.g., brittle aluminium + glass vs Thinkpad's magnesium + carbon fiber.
- enupten 12y agoThey also seem to have killed off the awesome Thinkpad X-tablets :( I wish it was also a bit less plasticky; something like Macbook Air + Nub + Old Thinkpad keyboard + Black Rubberized body + WACOM would be a dream come true. Hardware upgradeability on top of that would be epic.
- fencepost 12y agoNo nub, but aren't some of the high end Yoga convertibles WACOM?
- eropple 12y agoThe Thinkpad Yoga 12 has a Wacom model. I highly recommend it as a drawing tablet, with the caveat that I sent mine back because it wasn't getting enough use rather than I didn't like it. (I use an X200 Tablet instead, because for my use case I couldn't rationalize $1300.)
- yuhong 12y agoThis was posted years ago: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/13372/how-to-build-a-custom-laptop-computer-with-original-chassis-keyboard-etc/13374 http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/13372/how-to-...