No problem! At least myself enjoy a lot such sort of mails. And let me ask
a doubt, to you, living in USA: System76 is not an option? I never used one
because the brand is not in Argentina but always looked to me as an
interesting option.

Cheers.

El domingo, 28 de abril de 2013, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>
escribió:
> 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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