[ltp] Thinkpad fanboy ramble Re: What T for Fedora?

[William W. Viergever]

nice take; all i can say is .... LIKE!!!  (sorry - couldn't resist).

i'm a Thinkpad fanboy as well.

started w/ a 750C back in the early 90's (IIRC it was c. $3500 - $4K for base model, and almost double that to max out ram - but it paid off being able to do work, when on the road, and back at a hotel.

went with that until a 600, then a T42p (1600x1200) and then a T61 (1920x1200) - loved that screen.

then one day, plugging in an external (USB) hard drive ... something went zap an my T61 was toast.

went w/ a W520 (that i still have) - but not a real fan of its 1920x1080, real estate wise - but the colors are gorgeous.

then, last month - i splurged and bought a new P1 (w/ a 6-core Xeon and 32GB ECC ram) and have to say its 3840 x 2160 screen is gorgeous ... i bought it w/ a single 256GB NVMe M.2 drive, but have popped into two 1TB Samsung 970 Pros, and al i can say is wow!!! .... fast???? like a 0-60 in under 3 second car.

still running Windows on everything (as both the W520 and the new P1 have Nvidia discrete graphics and no one has convinced me that Linux plays well w. that Nvidia/Intel GPU hybrid) ... the good news is that the P1 runs Win 10 and that has better fonts/icon scaling than Win 7.

FWIW it run two 30" monitors on my desktop, both at 2560x1600 ... whereas so many new screens are ????x1440, i still prefer the x1600's

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-----Original Message-----
From: Linux-Thinkpad [mailto:linux-thinkpad-bounces at linux-thinkpad.org] On Behalf Of Keith Lofstrom
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2019 8:36 PM
To: linux-thinkpad at linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: [ltp] Thinkpad fanboy ramble Re: What T for Fedora?

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 05:47:50PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> At least in the past, Lenovo seems to treat failure to run Linux as a 
> bug.  Officially the probably only support a few distros (RHEL, Suse, 
> and maybe Ubuntu).  And probably on a few select hardware builds.

Long blovation follows:

My first laptop was a Dell; it had a power supply fault so I sent it in for warranty repair.  It spent a /month/ waiting in a storage warehouse in Austin.  Paid for by Airborne Express; Dell was swamped and refused delivery, then blamed the delay on Airborne.

So, I ditched Dell and bought a Thinkpad T30, installing Redhat.  That worked well for a year, then the T30 also developed a power supply fault.  PEBKAC?

I sent it to IBM (from Portland to Nashville by Airborne
Express) for repair on a Monday afternoon; Tuesday morning an IBM service tech called.  "Your laptop is fixed, but before we ship it back, we would like permission to upgrade
your BIOS.  We see that you are running Linux.   We tested
this new BIOS with all the common distros.  If you agree, we'll flash the BIOS and deliver your laptop tomorrow morning."  It was.  I was THRILLED. and have been a Thinkpad Fanboy ever since. 

Lenovo, not so much, but still way ahead of most vendors.

I haven't upgraded since the T60 and X61.  I demand 4x3 screens, and I stockpile spares.  I write papers, book chapters, and wiki pages.  I do not watch movies, I do not tweet or SMS or "like", and I do NOT like runt
("wide") screens; they remind me of the Tandy TRS-80 model 100 portable with the 8 line text display. 

And I love trackpoints.  Touchpads aren't useful when you get old and shaky; elderly friends with Parkinsons can't use touchpads.

Perhaps someday, an obscenely wealthy Thinkpad zealot will pay for the re-development of a custom 4x3 screen Thinkpad with a trackpoint; I'll buy one too.  Until then, I hope that my stockpile lasts, and Kahlon keeps making batteries for T60 and X61.

Keith

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