laptop advice time...

[Jason Shaw]

I have the Lenovo X1 Carbon (I bought it largely due to a case of the
"ooh shiny"s) and I run gentoo on it.  I've had it for 8 months or so
and it's been great.  It has 1900x1200 resolution on a 14" screen, a
large trackpad (which can be a bit sensitive at times but I only use
it for two finger scrolling of long articles), the keyboard is good
with a solid feel and good travel despite it's thinness, and most
importantly good linux support.

The downsides (and they are huge for some) are all related to it not
being upgradeable; the RAM is soldered and the SSD is proprietary.

Those aside, it's been a wonderful machine for my usage (browsing,
virtualbox, sshing into remote machines, scripting, etc).

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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