[GTALUG] ThinkPad P15 -- crap?

[David Collier-Brown]

On 2021-07-01 8:59 a.m., Scott Sullivan via talk wrote:

> On 2021-06-26 2:42 a.m., ac via talk wrote:
>> On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 01:06:23 -0400
>> William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>> I'm using ThinkPad P15 Gen 1 at work.  The keyboard, touchpad, and
>>> trackpoint are not what I expected.  They feel cheap.  My old T450 is
>>> better.
>>> Is it just me?  Or, has anyone notice this also?
>>>
>> not just you, I also am of the opinion that it is cheap crap :(
>> personally I have now started using HP, the quality is just better
>
> Over the last three years my employer has issued me both an HP 
> Elitebook G3 (Intel) and a G6 (AMD). Both have run linux well, both 
> have had trackpoints. The build quality was decent on both, plastic on 
> the G3, aluminum on the G6. The G3 machines had a common screen defect 
> were one corner would develop a backlight hotspot, but it was readily 
> ignorable.
>
> HP's dedicate dock for them also worked well, and the USB-C dock 
> option has also been working well on the G6.
>
> Getting into the cases has always been easy with just a few screws on 
> the back panel and no-nonesense access to RAM and M.2 slots.
>
> The BIOSes include a handy option to swap the fn and ctrl keys, which 
> are reversed compare to thinkpad layouts. Handy for me as I'm used to 
> the thinkpad layout. I do miss the dedicated middle click button that 
> the HPs lack, but middle button emulation (holding buttons 1 & 3) works.
>
How are they for supporting Linux?

--dave

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