On 2021-07-01 8:59 a.m., Scott Sullivan via talk wrote:
On 2021-06-26 2:42 a.m., ac via talk wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 01:06:23 -0400 William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi guys, I'm using ThinkPad P15 Gen 1 at work. The keyboard, touchpad, and trackpoint are not what I expected. They feel cheap. My old T450 is better. Is it just me? Or, has anyone notice this also?
not just you, I also am of the opinion that it is cheap crap :( personally I have now started using HP, the quality is just better
Over the last three years my employer has issued me both an HP Elitebook G3 (Intel) and a G6 (AMD). Both have run linux well, both have had trackpoints. The build quality was decent on both, plastic on the G3, aluminum on the G6. The G3 machines had a common screen defect were one corner would develop a backlight hotspot, but it was readily ignorable.
HP's dedicate dock for them also worked well, and the USB-C dock option has also been working well on the G6.
Getting into the cases has always been easy with just a few screws on the back panel and no-nonesense access to RAM and M.2 slots.
The BIOSes include a handy option to swap the fn and ctrl keys, which are reversed compare to thinkpad layouts. Handy for me as I'm used to the thinkpad layout. I do miss the dedicated middle click button that the HPs lack, but middle button emulation (holding buttons 1 & 3) works.
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