[GTALUG] Thinkpad choices today?

[Jason Shaw]

Look at the tilde location and you'll see that this was clearly not
designed with *nix users in mind.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 09:18:18AM -0500, Jason Shaw wrote:
> > I have a first gen X1 Carbon and love it.  It does have the usual
> downsides
> > of most ultrabooks; soldered on ram and non-standard drive, but has been
> > rock solid.  It has a chiclet style keyboard, trackpoint, 3 physical
> mouse
> > buttons, 1400x900 resolution on a 14" screen, on a machine that's
> basically
> > the size of a MacBook Air 13".  Linux just works out of the box.
> >
> > The major issue is that the current generation has the worst keyboard
> > layout I've ever seen.  The Function keys are now a "smart screen" that
> > dynamically change to "useful" keys based on what tasks you are doing.
> > Even worse though is the physical keyboard layout. I'll let the picture
> > speak for itself:
> >
> http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/thinkpad-x1-carbon-keyboard.jpg
>
> Home and end where caps lock was?  Delete next to backspace?  What were
> they thinking?  ~ and ` between alt and control?
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
>
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