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  Sigg3 6 years ago

  @Sidney Yeah, you should stay away from anything without T or X in the model name.

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  Sydney 6 years ago

  No, it was a Lenovo Thinkpad E540. That has been the last Thinkpad I have worked on recently. Probably stands for Economy-540 or something. :-p

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  Sigg3 6 years ago

  @Sydney that doesn't sound like ThinkPad. Are you sure it wasn't the vastly inferior Edge or Ideapad or something?
  
  I have not used all models of course:p (T61, T530, X1 and T420s.)

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  Sydney 6 years ago

  Interesting. I have dealt alot with the Dell XPS desktop line, and they are very good, so i'm sure the laptop line is just as good. Ive dealt with a couple Lenovo Thinkpads as well in the past, and I do like their build quality, but I don't really like the fact that if something breaks you have to find the same identical part(for example, I cannot use a different WiFi card). I fix a handfull of people's machines as a hobby. Almost anything is better than HP though...

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  Joe 6 years ago

  Not sure if it's still the case but the XPS and the ThinkPad's were still more money than the Macbook Pro. I use a 13" and a 256GB SSD one is about £1,200. I haven't looked at the others in a long time... I'm so used to the Mac keyboards that I find it almost impossible to type on a standard UK keyboard.

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  Sigg3 6 years ago

  @Sydney @Joe @Ant Lenovo #ThinkPad ftw. At work, we have both ThinkPads and Apple. IMO ThinkPads are still superior (better usability, better replacement scheme, better performance, no weird ports).

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  Ant 6 years ago

  As an alternative @sydney there's always the XPS range from dell ... roughly the same price as a mac too

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  Sydney 6 years ago

  Ah, I see. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing! Yeah, I should buy a Macbook one day, even if I don't run OSX. Most of their hardware is great.

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  Joe 6 years ago

  TBH @sydney I haven't used it all that much. I tried it out for a few days and there was a few annoying things from a usability PoV. It's so light that typing makes it bounce around and the keys take some hitting to make them activate. But other than that it works pretty well... I think I may have ruined low end laptops for myself as I use a MacBook Pro which is just rock solid in every way. It's nice to have it there for the 64-bit ARM dev but I haven't needed it just yet.

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  Sydney 6 years ago

  I know it has been 9 months, but I was just curious how this "tinker toy" has been working for you. I am looking at the possibilities of getting one in the future. The main reason I haven't jumped for it is that it seems that there is not a huge community behind it.

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  Ant 6 years ago

  XD

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  Sarah 6 years ago

  @ant win the lottery?!

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  Ant 6 years ago

  @sarah XPS13 is that laptop i brought with me last time i came for a visit
  what would @joe need to do to earn his browny points for that ? :P
  

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  Joe 6 years ago

  Hahaha bribery. I like @sigg3

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  Sigg3 6 years ago

  Maybe something for the lady?

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  Sarah 6 years ago

  @Joe I might not know what an XPS 13 is...but it sounds expensive. I say no!!😁😁

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  Joe 6 years ago

  It's not quite the XPS 13 but it'll do until I can get one of them

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  Ant 6 years ago

  nice

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  Sydney 6 years ago

  Wow, that looks really cool. Fun toy. :D

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  Joe 6 years ago

  

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  Joe 6 years ago

  

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  Joe 6 years ago

  

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  Sydney 6 years ago

  Cool cool! Excited for you. I was just wondering when you would get it the other day. Keep us posted, and yes, pics please! :)

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  Joe 6 years ago

  Will do when I get home

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  Ant 6 years ago

  as the old internet saying goes
  .... pics or gtfo
  :)

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