Updated ThinkPad Laptop Portfolio

Re:Updated ThinkPad Laptop Portfolio by windexh8er on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @09:15AM (#22413337)

I'm typing this on a T470 running Linux. It has been a fantastic laptop all around. In general I find it more productive than my work issued MBP. Others have stated hardware failures with their Lenovo, however I use mine daily and, generally, do not treat it any different than other laptops. The keyboard has fared better than the last three MBP I've been issued / reissued. YMMV, obviously. All hardware can fail and all hardware can have manufacturing defects. Overall, however, I feel as though my T470 is a more durable machine. And I'm excited to see AMD in the T lineup. While I might not purchase the first iteration, I'll definitely be watching the space.

Lenovo is supporting Linux on a lot of their hardware moving forward [0]. Lenovo also joined LVFS in 2018 to provide native Linux firmware updates [1].

[0] https://www.lenovo.com/linux [1] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/08/lvfs-lenovo-firmware-upd...

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Re:Updated ThinkPad Laptop Portfolio by nobleach on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @09:34AM (#22413504)

I typically tell people, "Everything but the fingerprint reader". On my X1C the only tiny battle I had to fight was for S3 suspend. I'm not even going to bother with the fingerprint reader.

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Re:Updated ThinkPad Laptop Portfolio by diffeomorphism on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @09:59AM (#22413675)

Red hat is apparently paying for some work on this: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/06/24/on-the-road-to-fed...

So I guess it is going to land in fedora first and then make its way to other distros.

That said, under windows the fingerprint reader is frustratingly bad (lots and lotsof false negatives and slow). How can they be almost perfect on phones but that awful on laptops?

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Re:Updated ThinkPad Laptop Portfolio by nobleach on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @10:48AM (#22414069)

My Macbook Pro's reader has been great. But yeah, I've had readers on my PCs for the past 10 years, and every one of them has been just a notch above terrible.

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