Oldest Viable Laptop (2017)

Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by ce4 on Monday February 25, 2019 @12:13PM (#19247237)

There's a project to upgrade the X220 to a 1920x1080 panel:

https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/6wnmqd/x220x230_f...

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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by mbrumlow on Monday February 25, 2019 @12:05PM (#19247134)

Poor how? I have a nice IPS in x220 and it looks amazing!

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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by post_break on Monday February 25, 2019 @01:29PM (#19248041)

I have an IPS in an X230 and it Ghosts really bad.

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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by elagost on Monday February 25, 2019 @03:29PM (#19249131)

My X220 does the exact same thing. Usually pretty fine though, but definitely noticeable, multiple times a week. I keep my display timeout pretty low and have a blank screen for the lock screen (slock, i3lock, swaylock).

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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by watersb on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @12:32AM (#19252214)

Same here. Don't game on it, or watch video, so it is a great machine for most of my programming needs.

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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by ThinkBad on Monday February 25, 2019 @05:52PM (#19250267)

This screen revision?

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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by post_break on Monday February 25, 2019 @06:40PM (#19250584)

The stock, not the 1080p one. I actually had the pepe and 1080p but sold them after getting cold feet.

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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by tokai on Monday February 25, 2019 @12:50PM (#19247623)

16:9 for a work machine is a bad choice, and the resolution is horrible.

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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by 5166cc9c39fa61 on Monday February 25, 2019 @07:22PM (#19250863)

> 16:9 for a work machine is a bad choice, and the resolution is horrible.

I found a way to turn 16:9 into an advantage: if you go for 70-character columns, you can get a 3-column display in a tiling WM or Emacs if your resolution is 1280 or more pixels horizontally (there are 5-pixel wide fonts out there, but none of them are very legible).

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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by eropple on Monday February 25, 2019 @05:42PM (#19250195)

People say this, but it honestly doesn't bother me in a laptop. Longer and thinner is easier to carry in a backpack and if I'm actually working it'll be docked and with external monitors, one of which is rotated to 9:16.

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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by floatboth on Monday February 25, 2019 @12:57PM (#19247686)

Unfortunately most things are 16:9. Some MacBooks are 16:10, and Surfaces are 3:2 which is really cool, but 16:9 still dominates :(

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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by tokai on Monday February 25, 2019 @01:20PM (#19247950)

Tell me about it. I still rock my old cracked x220. Most new alternatives (that I'm willing to pay for) would give a much worse keyboard, in exchange for an only slightly better screen.

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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by robin_reala on Monday February 25, 2019 @02:42PM (#19248690)

All MacBooks apart from the old (and sadly missed) 11" are 16:10.

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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by initself on Monday February 25, 2019 @12:08PM (#19247163)

Too bright! Just not the old school matte thing somehow.

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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by TomVDB on Monday February 25, 2019 @05:48PM (#19250237)

My X220, bought for $110 on eBay, came with a horrible TN LCD panel. Cost me around $70(?) to replace it with an IPS panel.

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