I second (third, sixth, whatever...) the Thinkpad line. I have an old T60 (so old it's a 4:3 aspect) that I currently run CentOS on. I just started a new job with SGI and got a brand new T-series. Can't remember the exact model. But it has one of the new style keyboards. It's still good to type on. The screen looks great. And it's still built like a tank.
Brian On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 7:41 PM, David Fleck <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 15:11 -0700, Rigel Hope wrote: > > they also appear to have almost completely replaced the IBM style > > keyboard/pad/stick. there's only one current model I looked at with an > IBM > > style kb. not sure how the new ones hold up but there are apparently some > > issues with the new trackpads, so I was hesitant. anyone with a newer > model > > want to weigh in? > > My wife and I both got ThinkPad Edge E531's a few months ago, and so far > they have been very satisfactory. We have OpenSUSE 13.1 running on them > very smoothly. There are a few annoyances. The touchpad is not as good > a design as most I've seen; there are no physically separate buttons, > just regions of the pad surface that act as buttons -- click-and-drag > operations can be painful -- the touchpad surface is large and easy to > hit by accident while typing. It does have the little pencil-eraser > pointing device also. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to disable the > touchpad and use a USB mouse instead. Despite this, on the whole they > have been great machines, and everything has Just Worked. > > -- > David Fleck <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
