[ltp] Survey: Your Ideal Business Laptop

[Andrew Mason]

 My ideal computer is an X200s with a dual core arm (or similar
processor power consumption in the mW) running at 2.GHz
:)

On 6/13/09, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Frank Myhr wrote:
>> Hi Nils,
>>
>> I appreciate your concerns and thank you for sharing them here. I don't
>> want to waste your, my, or anyone else's time. The bad news is I can't
>> say for sure that I'm not. Hopefully the survey doesn't take too much
>> time to fill out.
>>
>> There is some reason to be positive. Matt Kohut of Lenovo has stated
>> that if 15,000 or more customers were willing to pay for a ThinkPad with
>> a premium screen, Lenovo would at least consider building it:
>> http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=220
>>
>> I've heard the same, privately, from another Lenovo employee.
>>
>> The survey is a step toward gathering such a critical mass of paying
>> customers. If you had to put money on the result, you'd probably be
>> richer predicting failure. But you never know unless you try, right?
>> There are a lot of passionate ThinkPad owners out there.
>>
>
> Agreed. I'm one of them and I filled out the survey - thank you for
> doing it!
>
> One other thing I miss about the older TPs is the wonderful 2+1 mouse
> arrangement. There's a diagram of what I mean here, and it shows how you
> can have both scrolling and middle clicking without any possible
> interference between the two. (It also permits middle-dragging).
> http://www.richardneill.org/a22p-mdk11-0.php#x
>
> FWIW, I'd love to see the return of the high-quality soundcards, with
> line inputs, 15" screens @ 1600x1200, IrDa, more USB ports,
> fold-out-feet at the back to raise the keyboard angle, some customisable
> key-caps (let me have bigger ctrl and alt-keys by swapping key-caps, and
> kill the windows keys), a return to the older (X22-style) black
> velvet-feel paint finish, the 760-style customisable name badge(*), and
> the older style double lid-lock (which actually was much easier to open
> with one hand - IBM called these "smart latches").
>
> (*)When I got my 760 a decade ago, it was a really luxurious item. One
> of the neat features was a small space on the bezel for a name-badge,
> about 1cm-4cm. IBM enclosed a form and an SAE which you could send to
> them and have, for free, your own choice of name to stick on the front
> of the machine. It looked really neat.
>
> I still buy TPs because they are good machines, but I used to be able to
> make other laptop-users really green with envy (those poor people who
> were stuck with a Dell were really missing out!) The geek-cred isn't
> there any more.
>
> Richard
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