[PLUG] Need a new laptop

David Fleck david.fleck at mchsi.com
Fri May 9 23:41:56 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 15:11 -0700, Rigel Hope wrote:
> they also appear to have almost completely replaced the IBM style
> keyboard/pad/stick. there's only one current model I looked at with an IBM
> style kb. not sure how the new ones hold up but there are apparently some
> issues with the new trackpads, so I was hesitant. anyone with a newer model
> want to weigh in?

My wife and I both got ThinkPad Edge E531's a few months ago, and so far
they have been very satisfactory.  We have OpenSUSE 13.1 running on them
very smoothly.  There are a few annoyances. The touchpad is not as good
a design as most I've seen; there are no physically separate buttons,
just regions of the pad surface that act as buttons -- click-and-drag
operations can be painful -- the touchpad surface is large and easy to
hit by accident while typing. It does have the little pencil-eraser
pointing device also.  Fortunately, it's pretty easy to disable the
touchpad and use a USB mouse instead.  Despite this, on the whole they
have been great machines, and everything has Just Worked.

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David Fleck <david.fleck at mchsi.com>




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