[GTALUG] Thinkpad choices today?

[David Thornton]

I had a T510 which was great ( heavy but great) , I liked the keyboard ,
and the graphics card was good enough to play games. Optical drive , good
wireless, limited by power ( only got like 2 hours at best) . Linux support
was also good. Performance was good. I had a dual scren dock , and the
device could drive both via DVI.

Then I lost the 5 key and IT issued me a X240.. Lighter, newer, small
screen, nice and snappy, no optical drive, much better battery life. I feel
cramped on the screen. There are screen options. 1366 X 768 , 1366 X 768
touchscreen, and a larger one 1920 x 1080 all 12.5 inches. I have the
1366X768 non touchscreen and I feel cramped.

I have a dock for this x240.. but the laptop can't drive both screens with
DVI.. One has to be VGA. I dunno if that's a limitation of the particular
dock that I got, or if that's a limitation of the video card, but after
going Digital I can't stand VGA. Too fuzzy.

So the keyboard. I have had some trouble getting my head/hands around this
new keyboard. For one f1 f2 f3 function keys don't "work" out of the box .
They all do their "special purpose" like volume , display changing , mute
etc. I had to tell it : by default when I press the F1 key .. it send an
F1!
Also I can't get "end" to work without also pressing "Fn" . ... Which I now
call the "effin" key if you know what I mean.

David




On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Scott Sullivan <scott at ss.org> wrote:

> After 4 years my Lenovo x120e has final succumbed to the rough and tumble
> I put it through. The screen cracked and is unusable. This leaves me
> looking for a replacement.
>
> I'm going to constrain this question to Lenovo options. I don't think I
> can overcome my track-point addiction.
>
> Anyone purchased Thinkpad hardware in the last while? I know with some of
> the recent models Lenovo has started messing around with the keyboard
> design. What are peoples opinions?
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