[Novalug] Picking next laptop

John Franklin franklin@elfie.org
Wed Feb 18 16:34:16 EST 2015


Woo hoo!  They un-horked the keyboard!

I was looking at a second gen Carbon X1 late last year but dropped it from consideration because they turned "caps lock" into "home/end" and split the backspace key.  Looks like the 3rd gen they announced at CES this year is back to normal.

jf

On Feb 18, 2015, at 3:52 PM, Dave K via Novalug <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 03:37:02PM -0500, John Holland via Novalug wrote:
>> I have debian working pretty well on my MacBook pro, but it took a long time to get it there.if you want the laptop to run linux I would stay away from apple. Although some others have also made it work....
> 
> Agreed. While you can often run Linux on Apple hardware, it's an
> uphill battle, and you have to be willing to futz with things
> constantly and make due with unsupported hardware.
> 
> Dell has Linux-oriented laptops that are worth looking at. XPS 13 and a
> bigger, more recent announcement. Lenovos generally work well, however
> the "adaptive" keys on Carbons are loathed, as are the touchpads. I
> believe both are fixed on the new Carbons.
> 
> Sadly due to build quality, I will not suggest System76.
> 
> Cheers,
> -A. Dave
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