[GTALUG] Thinkpad choices today?

[Jason Shaw]

Oops, sorry, you did mention that.  My bad.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Jason Shaw <grazer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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