[TriLUG] Help me decide

Pete Soper pete at soper.us
Tue Mar 4 11:56:39 EST 2014


It depends on the model. Some are still totally excellent, I'm just 
permanently PO'd with this vendor. My conclusion is that well published 
documentation of Linux compatibility may not be enough with a laptop.

-Pete

On 03/04/2014 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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