Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard

Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by wutbrodo on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @11:55PM (#17413952)

I believe Thinkpads are famously easy to make work with Linux. I had one in college (a decade ago) and an x1 carbon when I was at Google (several years ago) and both of them were excellent (though the latter obviously would've had any kinks ironed out by the Goobuntu team).

My last couple laptops had better hardware (for my needs) than ThinkPads or Macbooks, but the occasional compatibility issue is enough that I'm thinking about switching back to Thinkpads.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by ajdlinux on Thursday June 28, 2018 @12:42AM (#17414124)

I run Debian on my work-issued X1 Carbon and it works well enough that my next personal laptop is probably going to be an X1.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by namibj on Thursday June 28, 2018 @01:56AM (#17414418)

Consider it's brothers, the 3-digit X and T models, which, especially in form of premature leasing returns, have excellent price for the value. And due to the stagnation with CPU power, all from Haswell should be well within usable.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by lmm on Thursday June 28, 2018 @06:59AM (#17415800)

The old, IBM-made Thinkpads were. AIUI it's not really so true of the modern Lenovo ones.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by wutbrodo on Thursday June 28, 2018 @04:39PM (#17420285)

All the ones I've had (and all the references I've read about their compatibility) have been during the Lenovo period, I believe.

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Re:Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Key... by _emacsomancer_ on Thursday June 28, 2018 @12:08AM (#17413993)

RedHat people famously also use lots of ThinkPads.

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