5 Jul
2012
5 Jul
'12
3:09 p.m.
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 07/05/2012 11:26 AM, David Riley wrote:
I have a new Lenovo laptop. I've been accustomed to Apple build
quality for about ten years, so I bought it with much trepidation, but
after talking to a lot of people about it. I was able to fondle one
quite a bit before I bought a new one, so I had a feel for it beforehand.
Yes it's plastic. For me, "plastic" has always been synonymous with
"crap", but I've adjusted my attitude in that area because of this
machine. Yes it's plastic (with a metal top shell), but it somehow
still manages to be built like a tank. It's also very fast, which is
nice for writing code while on the road. Overall I like it; I think
it's good bang for the buck. I think they are doing ok for now.
What model of Lenovo laptop do you have? I have a Thinkpad T42 and it
still seems to do things at a reasonable speed and is still in once piece.
I doubt Windows 7 would be any good on it. I use Debian on it instead.
One of the things that I like about the Thinkpads is that they have a
middle mouse button. On most other laptops I've examined, you have to do
something special like click left and right at the same time, or use a
special shift key, or something goofy like that. Why don't other laptops
have a middle mouse button?
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Lenovo
Thinkpad laptops sadly are sliding towards 'plastic crap' and
away from the 'solid built IBM quality' end of the scale.
For "everyday" work (i.e. light development work, web browsing,
email, etc.), older Thinkpads are great and are pretty robust in
the face of heavy abuse. Just drop something lightweight on them
(I have a hard time counting modern Linux as lightweight, but some
BSDs do the trick nicely).
I can't imagine that Lenovo would maintain the quality that IBM
did, but then I was never sure why IBM maintained that quality
either. Perhaps it was because they were standard in large
businesses that would shell out real money for PCs?