Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development

Re:Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development by s_kilk on Monday January 02, 2017 @11:40AM (#13302173)

Same, after about 48 hours uptime my MacBook will start dropping network connection every few minutes. This can only be cured by a full reboot.

The MacBook also regularly (at least once per week) drops all input devices (including built in keyboard and trackpad), which can only be cured by a hard power-strangle and reboot.

My colleagues experience the same problems too.

Basically, the ultra-reliable Mac is a myth, its as prone to failure as any computer.

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Re:Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development by Aeolos on Monday January 02, 2017 @01:48PM (#13303353)

Exact same experience. Roughly 48 hours of uptime and then I have to reboot in order to maintain a SSH connection.

That, and Finder that becomes unusably slow after working with images for a few hours. (Admittedly, tens of thousands of images, but it degrades to the point that merely opening an empty folder takes 2-3 seconds.)

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Re:Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development by ianamartin on Monday January 02, 2017 @02:10PM (#13303533)

I have this issue with my 11" MacBook Air as well as my 15" MacBook Pro from work. I do not have the issue with my personal MacBook Pro, which is identical hardware configuration and model to my work machine. All are running the same version of macOS. It's honestly a kind of a mystery to me.

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Re:Lenovo ThinkPad T460 – A Good Linux Laptop for Development by afarrell on Monday January 02, 2017 @12:35PM (#13302711)

I've never experienced this. Have you considered taking it into the genius bar?

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