laptop advice time...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:40:03PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> I'm looking for a replacement for my lenovo t410 (got wet!). I am
> considering getting one of the newer editions of the same (t430,
> t430s, t430u...), but I wanted to check in and see what machines y'all
> recommend.  I'm looking for:
> 
> - a really nice keyboard -- I spend most of my day typing.  Lenovo
> used to have the nicest eyboards around but I thin that has really
> changed.

Not that I can tell.  Seems good.

> - perfect Linux support for graphics, touchpads, etc -- I have a busy
> time coming up and I don't want to spend time futzing with this
> machine
> - half-decent speakers would be nice too, as I watch movies & stff on my laptop.

I have a W530, and I am very happy with it so far.  The keyboard is really
nice on it (and backlit in my case).  As far as I know the W530 is
very similar to a T530, except it has a different graphics chip line,
and twice as many ram slots.

I believe the T430 is similar to the T530 other than screen size and
physical dimensions.

I expect the linux compatibility to be quite good, but I must admit
I don't actually know yet.  I got it in November and I still haven't
had time to install Linux on it.  Note that I did have a daughter born
the same week i got the W530, so i have a valid excuse, and Windows 7
with firefox is a perfectly good web browser, and you can play games on
windows too.  The desktop machine is where Linux is always running. :)

I did just upgrade the disk to a 1TB so make room to install linux,
so I will probably do it soon.  Then I get to play with bumblebee to
see how the intel/nvidia graphics switching works.

The speakers on the W530 are vastly better than other thinkpads I have
seen or used before.  They are pretty decent (although nothing like the
ones in the ideapad Y410 my wife has, which are made by JBL).

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Len Sorensen
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