<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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).</div>
<div><br></div><div>They do do a lighter version of the T series with a 1600x900 screen, but it's probably as expensive as an air.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://shopap.lenovo.com/au/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t440/#tab-tech_specs">http://shopap.lenovo.com/au/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t440/#tab-tech_specs</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Leon</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>--<br>DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'<br><br># cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i cats<br>
Damn, my RAM is full of cats... MEOW!!</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Brad Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad@fnarfbargle.com" target="_blank">brad@fnarfbargle.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
G'day all,<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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).<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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