Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
by mdtusz on Sunday October 20, 2019 @11:01AM
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Learn to love the trackpoint and when you go back to a MacBook you'll be sad it's not there.
Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
by disposedtrolley on Monday October 21, 2019 @06:55AM
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The trackpoint is kinda crappy on newer ThinkPads. I'm not sure what they've changed, but movement is always jittery under Linux for me.
My X230 is buttery smooth. The X1 Extreme and T490 I've tried, not so much.
Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
by faizshah on Monday October 21, 2019 @12:22PM
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That's been my experience with my new t480. I wonder if there's some other drivers that could make it smoother?
Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
by ahnick on Sunday October 20, 2019 @04:39PM
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honest question, how to love the trackpoint? I constantly overshoot or undershoot my target when applying pressure to the stick. Any suggestions? Should I adjust some settings? Do I need to just dedicate to using it for a couple of weeks?
On the plus side its a solid and stable dev machine, iterm seems slower than the linux terminal. Rubymine, pycharm etc are stable. Google cloud shell freezes in browser sometimes but firefox quantum and chromium work pretty well otherwise. It also works great with my uhd monitor even tho it doesn’t have a dedicated graphics card.
But, I encounter screen tearing a lot on web pages. The trackpad is horrible in comparison to a macbook pro. There is some pretty nice support for multiple workspaces but they dont have the amazingly useful trackpad gestures.
I honestly feel like if there was a thinkpad with a trackpad as good as a macbook pro 2012 then there would be no problem switching.