[ltp] Survey: Your Ideal Business Laptop

[Michael Gaber]

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

I'd add a extensible display with a max resolution 2560x1600 (or such).

> 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
>> --
>> The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
>> http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
>>


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