[GTALUG] Thinkpad choices today?

[David Thornton]

Ill poke around in my bios ; thanks.
On Nov 13, 2014 8:09 PM, "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:05:50PM -0500, David Thornton wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If you have a Pro dock (Which has DVI, DP and VGA), you can only use DVI
> _or_ DP on the dock.  The Ultra dock has a second pair of ports which
> allow DP _or_ HDMI (but not at the same time), so with that dock you can
> do any combo of two DP, DP + HDMI, or DP + DVI.  If you want two DVI you
> need a DP to DVI adapter for the second DP port.  With the Pro dock, you
> can still do that using a DP to DVI adapter connected to the DP on the
> x240 itself, and the second display connected to DP or DVI on the dock.
> Essentially the pro dock only has one digital connection from the laptop
> to the dock, so only one of the digital ports can be used at a time.
> The VGA on the dock is a copy of the one on the laptop and the one on
> the laptop does not work when docked.  The DP port is seperate though.
>
> > 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.
>
> Don't then have an Fn lock option to make it always do that instead?
> Often there are bios options on thinkpads to pick the settings you like
> (such as swapping control and fn if you prefer the other order).
>
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> Len Sorensen
>
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