[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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