A Year with the Surface Go

Re:A Year with the Surface Go by paultopia on Saturday January 25, 2020 @08:55PM (#22149891)

The problem I have with thinkpads is the same as I have with almost all OEM windows machines---the branding is impenetrable. Like, which one is the good one? Is it the T series? The E series? The X series? The QZT series? Which is the Thinkpad X̡̨͟T͏̧͢Y̶̨͏7̷̀5̶̷Q̵̶͡͠͝Q͠͡ mark XZY? Is that the best one or the worst one? And you can't look at the prices to tell, and just assume the most expensive one is the best one, because the prices are for the current generation, and you're looking on eBay on the last generation. Screw that.

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Re:A Year with the Surface Go by numpad0 on Saturday January 25, 2020 @11:29PM (#22150386)

The original XTRAs system was like:

X: portable for Japanese(B5, 12”)

T: portable for American/European(A4, 14”)

R: office typewriter for secretaries(A4, 15”)

A: office computer for bosses(A4, 15”)

s: experimental ultraportable

Post-Lenovo acquisition system is:

X1xx: junks for kids

X1C : MacBook killer for China(14”)

X2 : stretched office typewriters for Japanese(12” wide)

T : Proper American Portable™️(14”)

R: Still office typewriters

A: X2 but uses AMD CPU

W: the most best ones that you order only by accident Yoga: ones that flips fragile keyboard exposing 11, 13, Flex, Helix, Tablet, whateverett: experimentals

The only ones you’d care are X1C, X200, or T400 depending on your region, religion and body size.

Not going to solve your problem but...

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Re:A Year with the Surface Go by fwipsy on Saturday January 25, 2020 @11:55PM (#22150455)

Actually, the convention is really simple, when they follow it. It goes [model line] [Screen size] [Intel CPU generation] [0 for intel, 5 for AMD CPU of same vintage] + Yoga if flippy

Model lines: X is premium business, T is mainstream business, E is economy, L is legacy/economy (extra ports). So by looking at "L380 yoga" you know it's a 13" convertible with lots of ports and an 8th gen Intel CPU.

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Re:A Year with the Surface Go by paultopia on Sunday January 26, 2020 @12:20PM (#22153246)

That is actually really cool! Except for the "if they follow it" part, which rather threatens to scupper the whole thing. :-)

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Re:A Year with the Surface Go by lostmsu on Friday January 31, 2020 @11:23AM (#22202867)

No 10th gen CPUs?

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Re:A Year with the Surface Go by samdixon on Saturday January 25, 2020 @09:44PM (#22150061)

Thinkpad T4##/s(14”), X2##(12”) or x1c(12” + thin) series are the ones to look at. Others not really much of a reason to bother and are in much less supply.

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Re:A Year with the Surface Go by dvdkon on Sunday January 26, 2020 @04:39AM (#22151278)

There's no "good one", since the different series represent design tradeoffs other than just price. Some people want the lightest device, some the most powerful, others want the longest battery life. You can't have it all.

If you just took the most expensive ThinkPad, you'd probably end up with a P-series workstation, which is far from most people's definition of "best". And that's okay.

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