On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 18:24:28 -0800 "Dr. Ed Morbius" <dredmorb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> on 15:23 Tue 08 Feb, Celejar (cele...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > > understand why everyone swears by them. > > Generally: solid construction, good hardware support for Linux, > excellent online product information (I don't know if the *1991* 486 > ThinkPad I'd aquired (originally supporting OS/2) is still listed, but > it certainly was well into the 2000s). > > The keyboards are full-featured and full-sized. > > For those who like it (and I do), the Trackpoint has no substitutes. I > had for a time a work-issued Dell system, with its own variant of the > Trackpoint. Dell's implementation used a hard, abrasive rubber which > quickly rubbed your fingers raw. IBM's got an attention to detail here > (an unfortunately, ThinkPad nibs didn't fit the Dell device). > > Under warrantee, support service is excellent. I had my current display > swapped with 3 days downtime. > > One key point to remember is that ThinkPad is no longer an IBM product > (though there stills eems to be a strong brand relationship between the > two, including a lot of current info on IBM's website). Under Lenovo's > guidance, I've seen some warts, and my current T410s has some issues: > wireless, suspend/hibernate, and display, largely. All work pretty > reliably much of the time, but with some warts: > > - I can't switch from X after starting a GUI session -- console won't > display. > > - After suspending by closing the lid, display won't reactivate. > > - Suspend/hibernate periodically doesn't restore. > > I'm also not entirely happy with the 1440x900 screen resolution (a > comperable 17" MacBook Pro offers 1680x1050). > > That said, given alternatives, it's the least bad solution, if not one > that leaves me smiling all the time. Thanks for the detailed report. Suspend and wireless are generally the sorts of things where one runs into problems. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110209161516.c032bc68.cele...@gmail.com
