ThinkPad club (was: [squeak-dev] Squeak laptop advice)

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Sat Apr 27 20:06:06 UTC 2013


Sorry for the OT -- meant to just send this to Göran.

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Göran, just thought I'd drop you a note.  Always a happy day, the
> day of ordering and, even better, taking delivery of, a new ThinkPad.
> Just wanted to share my excitement with you because -- you sort of
> opened my eyes!
>
> You were totally right about the x220/x230's -- like a dinky stick of
> dynamite!  Although I think carbon fiber is a great material for a
> laptop as much as a mountain bike, I took a deeper look at the X1 and
> found only ULV processor options, no mSATA capability, no battery
> options, no upgradeability.  Maybe good for e-reading in a coffee
> shop, maybe they should have called it ThinkMac instead? ha!  No
> seriously there don't seem to be many high performance ultra-book
> sized laptops at all out there.  I'm running big Magma apps, I want
> power!  So with fast processor and 256GB mSATA for the OS I spare the
> HD bay for a 750GB hybrid SSD drive to handle big apps.  Server power
> on the road!
>
> Ok, sorry for rambling but one more thing:  I _really_ struggled with
> this choice but in the end I decided to get the heavier/bulkier
> multitouch tablet version (X230t).  This is just ultra-cool tech and
> once I saw it mostly works in Ubuntu, now I've got to know if it can
> increase my input "connection" to Maui apps and other apps too.
>
> Cheers!
>   Chris
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Göran Krampe <goran at krampe.se> wrote:
>> Hey!
>>
>>
>> On 01/07/2013 04:33 PM, Chris Muller wrote:
>>>
>>> My dream machine is:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/x1-carbon-touch/
>>
>>
>> Sliding a bit from Jecel's original request - because I think he was
>> shopping for something less expensive - but I have a Lenovo X220 since april
>> and I just love it. And it runs Linux perfectly, wrote a bit about it:
>>
>> http://goran.krampe.se/2012/04/14/going-lenovo/
>>
>> ...now, since the X230 is out it seems the price of X220 has dropped a bit
>> too.
>>
>> regards, Göran
>>
>> PS. The IPS panel, the keyboard and the expansion options (memory, battery,
>> hdd etc) are probably the major points.
>>


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