Tripped on the power cable and the whole laptop came crashing down
....
Take that, Macbook Pro!
Yes it does; guys just can't find it easily.
my friend dropped his macbook and it broke the tile and destroyed the foundation of his house.
you jelly?
SSDs RULE!!!
My HP DM1z got a Maximum PC KickAss Award though and doesn't have that annoying Red thing in the middle of the keyboard.Show Image(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5300/5530909685_3a93c852b2_z.jpg)
Trash this joke and buy an x120e
My friend's Macbook? Keyboard barely works due to spills, it's somewhat yellowed due to overheating, the front screen bezel got melted off (according to him) due to really bad positioning of the heating vents, there's cracks all over the body due to drops, etc., but amazingly it still works.My brother's aluminium Macbook (2005) also has the same melting front screen bezel problem because the heating vents were positioned upwards near the F1 F2 cluster area. But yeah it still works.
There's 2 things I believe that should never be trashed:
1. 16:10
2. THE Thinkpad keyboard
SSDs RULE!!!
My HP DM1z got a Maximum PC KickAss Award though and doesn't have that annoying Red thing in the middle of the keyboard.Show Image(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5300/5530909685_3a93c852b2_z.jpg)
There's 2 things I believe that should never be trashed:
1. 16:10
2. THE Thinkpad keyboard
Sadly 16:10 is gone.
You will see just 16:9 displays in the future
The chiclet style keyboard of X120e / Edge 11 is likely one of the best keyboard out there, but sometimes the integralists doesn't like it and prefer the classic one.
Looks like lenovo agree with me, the new top of the line X1 has the chiclet style keyboard.
The chiclet keyboard is one of the most RIDICULOUS things I've ever seen.
Sadly 16:10 is gone.
You will see just 16:9 displays in the future
The chiclet style keyboard of X120e / Edge 11 is likely one of the best keyboard out there, but sometimes the integralists doesn't like it and prefer the classic one.
Looks like lenovo agree with me, the new top of the line X1 has the chiclet style keyboard.
Clearly you have no idea about what I'm speaking about.
Touch one of it and then come back with a more reasonable sentence.
Regarding the chiclet keyboard - it's quite good, better than standard laptop keyboards (but still lousier compared to the X200's)
Clearly you have no idea about what I'm speaking about.
Touch one of it and then come back with a more reasonable sentence.
It doesn't matter how good the switches or membranes are made! I do NOT like perfectly flat keys
I've used plenty of macbooks to give their chiclet keys a spin.
Not only you haven't touched one, you haven't managed to see a photo.
So I repeat touch one of it, then judge.
If I'm speaking about champagne, doesn't matter how many liters of cocacola you drank.
Mackbook keyboard are just crap.
And if the man doesn't like flat keys, he doesn't like flat keys.
ew, apple aluminum is gross. thinking of getting a matias for my iMac
Again.
Look at least a photo and then talk.
TP chiclet style are not flat. Actually they are more curved than the classic TP keyboards.
Unless you specify what keyboard you have any comparison is pointless....
Not only you haven't touched one, you haven't managed to see a photo.
...
Again.
Look at least a photo and then talk.
TP chiclet style are not flat. Actually they are more curved than the classic TP keyboards.
It's definitely noisier than the Chicony one (tried that on another person's X200) and I find that I love the tactility of this more.
When I type on my Thinkpad and I'm thinking, I like to run my fingers on the surface on the keys round and round and I find that I can't do that on the chiclet style keys.
Question: The X1 keyboard seems to be slightly different than that of the Edge's? Is it because of the backlit construction?
What do you mean by curved and flat? The surface of the keys?
Again, we're not talking about thinkpad only. We're talking about generic chiclet keys. When EverythingIBM mentioned he didn't like the keys he was talking about CHICLET keys in general.
There's no need to be rude.
There's no need to be rude.
It seems to me that if we find other scissor switch keyboards that use NMB blue domes we might be able to identify some of the better choices out there. Everyone I've looked at has been that spermy looking translucent.
Is well known
If you drop an acer, you will trash it
If you drop an HP/Dell you repair it
If you drop a Thinkpad you just pick it again.
What happen if you drop an XArmor?
My tp edge 11 (i sold it) had red instead of blue domes, but looks more an exception than a rule.Show Image(http://imageshack.us/m/233/4018/tpkb.jpg)
If the crash ends on your head a big echo can be listened in a large area...:fish:
(Well, partly because of the SSD but still...)
Just looking at the pictures alone, I seem to deduce that the NMB domes have a higher quality (like thicker).
And maybe that's why it offers more tactility than the Chicony ones (which look fragile), and therefore translates to better keyboard feel?
Like a more harder to collapse dome and therefore slightly higher actuation force and therefore better tactility feedback?
Just sayin'
RipOmeter (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:6189) numbers?
Lol.
Do Italians build cars this way?
I hear modern Italian cars are well made.
Really not too hard make cars better than american ones
Depends what make you're talking about. Buicks are very reliable (though ugly as hell).
I hear modern Italian cars are well made.
Reliability is just a single parameter to define a good car.
Hahaha...my parents said when they were younger they called them "Fix It Again Tonys" :D
After he turned the first corner, the right side flashing signal jammed in the on position. No matter what, It kept flashing.
Clearly modern objects with mechanical microswitches are not for you
612 Scaglietti is my personal fav.
It's funny. I am finding people at OCN and Deskthority.net manage to write down the number of nickels they use.
EDIT: All jokes aside - I'm sure the Thinkpad laptops are fantastic and most of them don't have flat chiclet keys. They're very well built and I would like to own one.
IBM Thinkpad and Toshiba Tecra are the best business laptops.
I like buying the cheap HP chinese junk instead of the expensive IBM/Lenovo chinese junk. Especially with stuff that obsoletes in 2 years.
I've never had a good experience with Toshiba - I had to replace 4 Toshiba drives on one of my old laptops in the span of about a year and a half! It was pretty terrible.
Who cares?
If you are not using SSDs in a portable device you are doing something wrong.
I just picked up a 2TB Spinpoint drive from Newegg for $70 ($10 off) including free shipping for my HTPC.
Storage is cheap.
But since it's for my wife's Oprah shows I don't really care much about reliability.
RipOmeter (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:6189) numbers?
Lesseee - the math is more like the HP NotBook is 1/3rd the price and lasts 80% as long....
Once you get a SSD you won't care about hard drive comparisons any more.
I sure don't.
I paid way too much money to get a OCZ RevoDrive X2 in my box. It is very fast in optimal conditions but overall I was not that impressed.
Keyboards retain their value. Laptops do not.Show Image(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1044/5188195243_44e1c43009_z.jpg)
I have an intel 160 on my desktop and a *cheap* sandisk on the x200t and I'm more than impressed.
Both machines are booting in 14 seconds v.s. over a minute with mech hdd everything is superquick. Even firefox is not too far from opera when launched for the first time.
SDD are surely the biggest single step upgrade I saw in 20 years, well maybe the first 3d card versus a plain one was a comparable step.
SDD are surely the biggest single step upgrade I saw in 20 years, well maybe the first 3d card versus a plain one was a comparable step.
Hard drives remind me of PS/2.
I agree no question about that.
It's just that I have been spoiled with raided 10Krpm WD Raptors.
OCZ claims 740Mbs, the real life average is more in the 200's - Average HD is about 60 Mbs - so 3 times faster...
I use CF cards as hard drive for all four of my Amigas and in my tmux/irssi server (Running OpenBSD). And even with those cards that isn't built for being used as hard drives it is remarkable how much faster they are then mech drives. :)
WD raptor were (and are) great disks, I used first a 36 GB one, then two 74 GB ones in raid zero, then briefly a 150 GB velociraptor. Almost 10 years of quick and problem free computing.
The intel SSD is still a big step, not just because the speed but also because the silence, my pc is now completely fanless and even a velociraptor wich isn't a loud HDD looked incredibly noisy in a completely silent pc.
Is not the transfer rate that makes a difference on an OS dedicated drive. It's the seek time and the 4k transfer rate, which averages from 0.5 to 0.8 MBps on a normal HDD, it's around 1.5 on velociraptor and 60 on my intel G2
Someone walked by me today and accidentally knocked my X200 off the desk. I had to make sure that the guy wasn't seriously injured from the incident.
LoL - Did it land on his foot?
LoL - Did it land on his foot?
Anyone who is dumb enough to knock a whole laptop off a table deserves whatever injuries come with it. Almost every day in class I have to deal with this idiocy...why can't people just take their backpacks off and hold them in front of them!?