On 13/11/14 04:14 PM, Steve Harvey wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 08:43:58AM -0500, Scott Sullivan wrote:
After 4 years my Lenovo x120e has final succumbed to the rough and tumble I put it through. The screen cracked and is unusable. This leaves me looking for a replacement.
I'm going to constrain this question to Lenovo options. I don't think I can overcome my track-point addiction.
Anyone purchased Thinkpad hardware in the last while? I know with some of the recent models Lenovo has started messing around with the keyboard design. What are peoples opinions?
Back in 2007, I bought a new T60 for ~$1800. Four years later, I decided to buy another T60 ($400 used) as a spare instead of any of their latest offerings, all of which sported the trendy wide-screen aspect ratio which I dislike. [...]
Not sure how interested you are in older hardware, but I too got a couple ThinkPads in 2007 -- a T61, and my mom got an X60 which I took over a few years back (and am typing on now). These are my primary laptops still, though I replaced the X60 with a SSD and can barely tolerate my T61 HDD anymore (I'm trying to figure out whether I can figure a few broken keys on the T61, and if so, I'll get a SSD for it too). I mention the X60 though because (a) it's an awesome little machine, and (b) there are refurbished X60 machines for sale that come pre-flashed with LibreBoot and pre-installed with Trisquel from this store that ships to Canada: http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/product/ibm-lenovo-thinkpad-x60-coreboot/ Though, it looks like they're out of stock right now... not sure if they're doing it anymore? I started to look into the ThinkPad T430 a year and a half ago, but decided to upgrade my old ThinkPads instead.