[TriLUG] Help me decide

[Roy Vestal]

Ken,
  Those days are long gone. They left when IBM sold the ThinkPad and 
ThinkCenter to Lenovo in 2006 ( I was there and watched the carnage. It 
was horrifying)

<sniff>
-Roy

On 3/4/14 11:47 AM, Ken MacKenzie wrote:
> This is a shame to hear.  Lenovo, well more so back in the IBM thinkpad
> days, always seemed to have really good linux compatibility out the gate.
>   I guess those days are gone..
>
> Ken
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Pete Soper <pete at soper.us> wrote:
>
>> I bought a Lenovo E531 in December. The trackpad is unusable with the
>> three Linux distros i've tried on it and only obnoxious to the max with
>> Windows until 95% of the gesture recognition and region crud is disabled.
>> If it weren't for touchpad-indicator giving me the ability to disable the
>> trackpad (and use an outboard mouse) this laptop would be worthless to me.
>> (Several hours spent trying to reconfigure the trackpad brought no joy,
>> just an appreciation for the mind-numbing complexity of those Linux/X
>> interfaces).  As it is it's a pain to have to deal with the mouse, but
>> that's life. With the I5 chip, 12gb of RAM and an 840 SSD the performance
>> is good, but this is my last Lenovo.
>>
>> -Pete
>>
>>
>> On 03/04/2014 11:07 AM, William Sutton wrote:
>>
>>> For whatever it's worth... when I did my laptop research recently, I
>>> found a lot of comments on the Lenovo web site about the current generation
>>> of trackpads on their laptops. The complaints seemed to be all over, not
>>> specific to a single model.  A lot of people wishing they still had last
>>> year's model...
>>>
>>> William Sutton
>>>
>>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Ken MacKenzie wrote:
>>>
>>>   I am thinking of getting the Acer 720P chromebook.  The one with the
>>>> touch
>>>> screen.
>>>>
>>>> This:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.amazon.com/Acer-C720P-Chromebook-11-6-Inch-
>>>> Touchscreen/dp/B00GSEOV7U
>>>>
>>>> Figure I will use Chrome a bit and use crouton to install wheezy as a
>>>> chroot.
>>>>
>>>> My alternatives to that are a more expensive ultrabook or maybe an
>>>> ideapad
>>>> s210 from lenovo or something similar.  Touch screen is not a big deal
>>>> but
>>>> could be useful and well thin and light and good battery is a concern.
>>>>
>>>> I guess the trade off is with the chromebook no windows (that is a plus)
>>>> good battery life and with linux in the chroot chromeos will handle the
>>>> drivers so in particular the touchscreen should work well even under
>>>> linux.
>>>>
>>>> The pro of the alternatives is of course perhaps more horsepower and
>>>> local
>>>> storage.  The con is if there is a touch screen linux might not work with
>>>> it that well.
>>>>
>>>> What would you do hotshot?
>>>>
>>>> Ken
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