One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)

Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by tluyben2 on Friday August 28, 2020 @09:38AM (#24304663)

X220 here; they are great. Battery life, performance (for what I do) etc are lovely almost 11 years after production.

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Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by rkangel on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:00AM (#24304902)

A lot of modern software development is actually pretty light on computer power needs. Unfortunately I'm in the 'have compiled the Linux kernel 3 times today' camp for which that isn't true.

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Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by rbanffy on Friday August 28, 2020 @07:18PM (#24311520)

I do almost all my heavy lifting on a Lenovo tower under my desk. What it can't do, I use a cloud instance for.

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Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by wilsonnb3 on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:21AM (#24305166)

They have bad screens compared to modern laptops, even the higher end IPS ones.

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Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by bigpeopleareold on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:26AM (#24314609)

I put an IPS display into my x220. Still lower resolution, but I get away with it with a lot of tweaking. I have laptops with better screens but I usually use my x220 instead. I'd just say: YMMV :)

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Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by tluyben2 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @05:37AM (#24314925)

Yep, but I value other qualities more (unbreakable, pretty water resistant, long battery life, many ports, easy to swap hds/memory, cheap).

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