[plug] Recommendations for a laptop

[Andrew Cooks]

Hi Brad

I'm a fan of the T series as well, but they've messed with the
keyboard on recent models. The X1 carbon looks nice too.

Greg Kroah-Hartman asked the same question (more or less) on G+
today[1]. You may find the comments helpful.

1. https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts/VuvyCDccW2f

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Leon Wright <techman83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know a few plug members have an X Series thinkpad and we have a few at
> work. They are great machines, however the screen resolution sucks. 1366x768
> is an utterly useless resolution.
>
> The Air at least has 1440x900. Personally I think the T series thinkpads
> aren't that much bigger/heavier, more screen resolution options, have
> replaceable batteries and larger ones can be purchased. They're also dead
> trivial to get linux working on them as they pretty much "Just Work" in my
> experience (at least with the Intel Graphics, which work just fine for
> coding/web browsing).
>
> They do do a lighter version of the T series with a 1600x900 screen, but
> it's probably as expensive as an air.
>
> http://shopap.lenovo.com/au/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t440/#tab-tech_specs
>
> Leon
>
>
>
> --
> DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'
>
> # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i cats
> Damn, my RAM is full of cats... MEOW!!
>
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Brad Campbell <brad at fnarfbargle.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> G'day all,
>>
>> After using my laptop as a fuse between a power meter I was debugging, and
>> the mains I find myself in need of a replacement.
>>
>> My laptop was a Sony Vaio TT, and its predecessor a TX so I'm used to
>> small (11.1"), light (<1200g) and 6-11 hours of battery.
>>
>> I've been looking at a 13" Mac Air, but I wonder if anyone else has
>> recommendations for a small and light linux suitable machine with a 10-12
>> hour battery life (or >6 hours with a replaceable battery).
>>
>> The Vaio was 1366x768 ~1.2ghz Core 2, 8gb ram and 160gb Intel SSD. Ran for
>> 6 hours on the standard battery and 11 on the extended.
>>
>> Recommendations of suitable machines that cost less than the Mac and have
>> at least feature parity with the VAIO would be very warmly welcomed. I write
>> code on it, so it needs to be an x86_64 and it really does need at least
>> 160GB SSD.
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