So the TrackPoint, thermals, keyboard, durability, Linux friendliness, officially allowed user repairability, great anti-glare screen coating and superior quality to any consumer grade laptop or Macbook are not factors to you, or are you willing to drop the ball just because, where other laptop makers are worse on basically all criterias and even hate you for user repairability, Lenovo forgoes a couple of your criterias and personal disagreements?
You are not logical and reasonable when you say “I no longer consider ThinkPads to be more desirable than any other laptop.”
the keyboard is no longer replaceable without disassembling the entire laptop (since the L13 Yoga Gen2). One of the things that made me prefer ThinkPads over the rest.
This is a Yoga exclusive problem due to its non conventional form and function. This is not a ThinkPad problem. You can just lift off the clips on ThinkPads and plug in and out the cable beneath keyboard to replace.
In which way is a ThinkPad more Linux-friendly than others? I mean, I can’t even use all the hardware I bought on Linux, as the fingerprint reader doesn’t have any Linux support
Fingerprint reader is a very unique issue and the lack of hardware support is an anomaly. Users of Yoga and newest L serie generations apparently are reporting this, but not users of other ThinkPads. The Linux hardware support for Bluetooth, WiFi and other stuff is far superior to any other mainstream laptop maker.
In which way are ThinkPads “superior quality” or “durable”?
ThinkPads are resistant against drops and falls and have MILSPEC-810G certification, similar to rugged phones, which also allows them to be resistant against dust, sand, fungus, mist, extreme temperature and other harsh environmental conditions. Only laptops like Panasonic Toughbook get certified for this stuff, mainstream laptops outside ThinkPads do not. My ThinkPad has fallen 2-3 feet multiple times and even thrown across a room, and I am using it in front of me right now.
Edit: I have figured you out, you donkey (not the reply fellow above), downvoting every comment I make on my account. Go touch grass and snip your internet cable with a scissor. And maybe eat some shit and get diarrhea too.
Before you misunderstand, sorry, you are not that person. Whoever did it undid their downvote, and I just wanted to know that it was intentionally being done since the past week to me, and I do have a clue who it is. I got a lot of enemies due to being a known privacy advocate, moreso because I am also a communist (we get hate from libs lol).
If you want the 2-in-1 form, I am afraid you barely have options to begin with, let alone ones that are as easy to work with as conventional laptops. This is both a problem that you chose and one that industry is forced to inflict, as part of the engineering complexity and user not having a chunky 3kg device.
Lenovo maintains a Linux compatibility chart for ThinkPads and provides support for it. I have not seen mainstream laptop makers make any such efforts outside of that Dell XPS Developer Edition model with Ubuntu years ago. Most makers just ship preinstalled Ubuntu without putting in their own effort. With ThinkPads being heavily used in corporate sector, Linux gets some support as some companies do use it over Windows.
I think the MILSPEC certification is extremely useful, especially since you probably do use your device like a handheld tablet. Maybe you do not need it, but almost everyone will always benefit from it. Knowing your data is safe and rescuable even when the device gets a lot of physical abuse is the greatest benefit. IMHO you do not appreciate how good the ThinkPad is, compared to what garbage others make, and it may be a case of grass is greener on the other side.
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So the TrackPoint, thermals, keyboard, durability, Linux friendliness, officially allowed user repairability, great anti-glare screen coating and superior quality to any consumer grade laptop or Macbook are not factors to you, or are you willing to drop the ball just because, where other laptop makers are worse on basically all criterias and even hate you for user repairability, Lenovo forgoes a couple of your criterias and personal disagreements?
You are not logical and reasonable when you say “I no longer consider ThinkPads to be more desirable than any other laptop.”
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This is a Yoga exclusive problem due to its non conventional form and function. This is not a ThinkPad problem. You can just lift off the clips on ThinkPads and plug in and out the cable beneath keyboard to replace.
Fingerprint reader is a very unique issue and the lack of hardware support is an anomaly. Users of Yoga and newest L serie generations apparently are reporting this, but not users of other ThinkPads. The Linux hardware support for Bluetooth, WiFi and other stuff is far superior to any other mainstream laptop maker.
ThinkPads are resistant against drops and falls and have MILSPEC-810G certification, similar to rugged phones, which also allows them to be resistant against dust, sand, fungus, mist, extreme temperature and other harsh environmental conditions. Only laptops like Panasonic Toughbook get certified for this stuff, mainstream laptops outside ThinkPads do not. My ThinkPad has fallen 2-3 feet multiple times and even thrown across a room, and I am using it in front of me right now.
Edit: I have figured you out, you donkey (not the reply fellow above), downvoting every comment I make on my account. Go touch grass and snip your internet cable with a scissor. And maybe eat some shit and get diarrhea too.
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Before you misunderstand, sorry, you are not that person. Whoever did it undid their downvote, and I just wanted to know that it was intentionally being done since the past week to me, and I do have a clue who it is. I got a lot of enemies due to being a known privacy advocate, moreso because I am also a communist (we get hate from libs lol).
If you want the 2-in-1 form, I am afraid you barely have options to begin with, let alone ones that are as easy to work with as conventional laptops. This is both a problem that you chose and one that industry is forced to inflict, as part of the engineering complexity and user not having a chunky 3kg device.
Lenovo maintains a Linux compatibility chart for ThinkPads and provides support for it. I have not seen mainstream laptop makers make any such efforts outside of that Dell XPS Developer Edition model with Ubuntu years ago. Most makers just ship preinstalled Ubuntu without putting in their own effort. With ThinkPads being heavily used in corporate sector, Linux gets some support as some companies do use it over Windows.
I think the MILSPEC certification is extremely useful, especially since you probably do use your device like a handheld tablet. Maybe you do not need it, but almost everyone will always benefit from it. Knowing your data is safe and rescuable even when the device gets a lot of physical abuse is the greatest benefit. IMHO you do not appreciate how good the ThinkPad is, compared to what garbage others make, and it may be a case of grass is greener on the other side.