On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 09:18:18AM -0500, Jason Shaw wrote:
I have a first gen X1 Carbon and love it. It does have the usual downsides of most ultrabooks; soldered on ram and non-standard drive, but has been rock solid. It has a chiclet style keyboard, trackpoint, 3 physical mouse buttons, 1400x900 resolution on a 14" screen, on a machine that's basically the size of a MacBook Air 13". Linux just works out of the box.
The major issue is that the current generation has the worst keyboard layout I've ever seen. The Function keys are now a "smart screen" that dynamically change to "useful" keys based on what tasks you are doing. Even worse though is the physical keyboard layout. I'll let the picture speak for itself: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/thinkpad-x1-carbon-key...
Home and end where caps lock was? Delete next to backspace? What were they thinking? ~ and ` between alt and control? -- Len Sorensen