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| coppice:
--- Quote from: nctnico on July 29, 2023, 09:36:42 pm ---I'm actually typing this on a decade old Dell Vostro. Still works like a charm, original battery is OK, no problems even though it has travelled hundreds of thousands kilometers in airplanes, cars, trains and in a bag attached to my bike. It is getting a bit slow for today's standards though so it needs replacing with a faster model. Which will be a Dell again. --- End quote --- The Vostros are perfectly nice machines for home use. I wouldn't put one in a rucksack every day, and carry it around, though. That's what has separated the Thinkpads and Latitudes from the others. HP and Toshiba used to be in that camp, but no longer. My daughter has a pretty nice Gigabyte notebook, but if she carried that around every day it would be dead in no time. That's why we are looking for a new machine. |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: switchabl on July 29, 2023, 09:29:11 pm --- --- Quote from: coppice on July 29, 2023, 08:56:34 pm ---The Extreme might be a bit big. The Carbon X1 seems to have been trashed in the latest model. The Extreme looks like it hasn't been updated yet. --- End quote --- Do you have more info on that? I have generally been happy with the X1Cs I've had but I haven't used the latest one. From what I've read it was supposed to be basically the same as the Gen 10 with a new CPU. --- End quote --- My children looked in a Lenovo shop in HK today. They went to see what the current T14 was like, and were seriously disappointed, so they looked around at other models. Anything recently refreshed seemed to be heading in the same direction. People commenting about reliability may be real, or they might just have had some bad luck. What you see of build quality first hand is what it is. There may be differences in what is being offered in HK. Lenovo do supply different machines with the same name in different markets. That's usually things like the East Asia version has a discrete GPU, while the rest of the world doesn't get that. The core designs are usually global. |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: vad on July 29, 2023, 09:26:08 pm ---However, since this is for your daughter, I strongly suggest considering the MacBook Pro or even the MacBook Air. While I might be too old to master MacOS without growing too much grey hair, kids and young adults tend to learn fast. --- End quote --- I love my daughter. Why would I suggest a thing like that? :) |
| JPortici:
I like the current latitudes, i changed the PCs at work this year, now i use a 5530. Nice screen, nice keyboard (though it's a bit crammed) and plenty of power. Build quality is good. It only suffer from a curious problem, if you pick it up while the lid is open, with your right hand, there is a chance that it crashes (crap on screen, freezes) it probably bends slightly. All other dells i used in the past suffered from the same problem, so i always pick it up closed or with two hands |
| rstofer:
--- Quote from: vad on January 02, 1970, 10:57:45 pm --- You may also consider the MacBook Pro. These laptops are faster, quieter, and have excellent battery life compared to ThinkPads. However, for Windows users, the MacOS experience could be a bit challenging, and Apple's warranty comes with a deductible and longer turnaround times. --- End quote --- I am in the process of making the transition to the MacBook Pro M2 - it isn't all that difficult if you have spent time with Unix or Linux. I really like the crisp display and most everything I use on Windows will run on the MacBook Pro - except MATLAB and that conversion may be complete in version 2023b when it gets released. Meanwhile I can get most of my stuff working with wxMaxima. I wanted the M2 variant for Machine Learning and such. I had read where the M2 was blazing fast but I'm pretty sure that is fanboy stuff. It doesn't seem any faster than any Intel based laptop with an NVIDIA graphics chip. It's a really nice laptop! |
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