I ran that laptop for many years. I still have it. But I like my rooted chromebook more.
The ergonomics of those thinkpads is nearly unrivaled. But they are heavy. I'd still choose the ThinkPad over 90% of the laptops out there no matter the specs.
Erogonomics is everything. Once you are on Linux it won't be slow in any case. Now the slowest thing is at the human and device interface. So the only thing that matters is optimizing that. Not the RAM, not the CPU, and not even the repairability. That ThinkPad has the most proper keyboard of almost any laptop. It has a track pad that isn't oddly off to one side putting it under one of your palms when typing. It's body is also rubberized so it doesn't slide all over the place when on your lap.
Everything else about a laptop is unimportant unless you have windows and need absurd specs to counter act the stupidity of paying for shitware.
Thanks for the reviews. I hope I might eventually get all three to see.
Have a couple towers but haven't used them for a couple years since I moved. Now I'm just using my laptop and 4 monitors. It's okay. Ideally I'd have a single 4k monitor, perhaps a second, and a lighter laptop that I would actually want to carry. At first I liked my laptop because it was lighter than my other very old brick. But now it seems heavy, not worth the effort. The last issue is that I have 7/8 ports filled plus the card reader. My next thing ideally should be simpler. But before all that I have to fill my DAS with drives, set up the RAID, and migrate everything there - and maybe get and fill a second one.
Looks nice and only $296CAD - but is 64gbSSD and 4gbRAM enough?
I guess it's not to be a work station or have 1000s of tabs. And I think you said you'd just do all that over something like TightVNC (I'm dating myself) but better connected to an actual workhorse.
I've been carrying around my two new old tablets and haven't used them once. I still just use my phone, and not for much.
I won't know yet, but I suspect at my new studio space I'll set up a couple work areas with multi monitors and maybe PCs - or maybe these Chromebooks (linked to a cooled locked machine room with servers*, like we had at Topic Animation Studio in Toronto). In time with funding I'd get rid of the 1080p monitors and just have many of the same model 4k monitors - also for teleprompters and camera monitors. With great funding I'd set up a large 4k wall screen rather than the projector. In the meantime, we'll use either John or Stasha or both of their projectors, run off a PC or Chromebook.
*At Hakka, besides my big space to renovate is a storage hall, a kitchen nook, and a large walk-in-closet sized room that is floor to ceiling with old dishes I have to get rid of. The dishes are all too big or too small or have Chinese designs and can't be used by the Nepali restaurant. When those dishes are gone, either it will be an office, animation/edit suite, machine room, or a combo.
This Chromebook seems very nice, and it's on my list now, but first I need to fill up my DAS, get a car, and one (ideally get two or three) Canon R50vs (now $100 less than last time!), some nice lenses, (and two more Akaso action cameras) - plus some gear (wireless recording mics, mixer, C-stands, better lights, etc.). Besides eventually aiming to also get a home-server and web-server, an animation desk, and a moderate slow motion camera, I couldn't think of anything more that could be practical - it all needs to be used to be useful, it all needs to be stored in limited space, and it all needs to become sustainable and maybe profitable. I'll be getting a nice little chunk back from catching up with 14 years of taxes - but it can only cover a few of the items on Santa's Wish List.
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I ran that laptop for many years. I still have it. But I like my rooted chromebook more.
The ergonomics of those thinkpads is nearly unrivaled. But they are heavy. I'd still choose the ThinkPad over 90% of the laptops out there no matter the specs.
Erogonomics is everything. Once you are on Linux it won't be slow in any case. Now the slowest thing is at the human and device interface. So the only thing that matters is optimizing that. Not the RAM, not the CPU, and not even the repairability. That ThinkPad has the most proper keyboard of almost any laptop. It has a track pad that isn't oddly off to one side putting it under one of your palms when typing. It's body is also rubberized so it doesn't slide all over the place when on your lap.
Everything else about a laptop is unimportant unless you have windows and need absurd specs to counter act the stupidity of paying for shitware.
A used Surface is another good option I've been looking at.
Thanks for the reviews. I hope I might eventually get all three to see.
Have a couple towers but haven't used them for a couple years since I moved. Now I'm just using my laptop and 4 monitors. It's okay. Ideally I'd have a single 4k monitor, perhaps a second, and a lighter laptop that I would actually want to carry. At first I liked my laptop because it was lighter than my other very old brick. But now it seems heavy, not worth the effort. The last issue is that I have 7/8 ports filled plus the card reader. My next thing ideally should be simpler. But before all that I have to fill my DAS with drives, set up the RAID, and migrate everything there - and maybe get and fill a second one.
This is basically what I run: https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Slim-Chromebook-Lightweight/dp/B0D5HZVQDL
If you like music it also sports a better DAC than most computers so it's a very good audio source.
Looks nice and only $296CAD - but is 64gbSSD and 4gbRAM enough?
I guess it's not to be a work station or have 1000s of tabs. And I think you said you'd just do all that over something like TightVNC (I'm dating myself) but better connected to an actual workhorse.
I've been carrying around my two new old tablets and haven't used them once. I still just use my phone, and not for much.
I won't know yet, but I suspect at my new studio space I'll set up a couple work areas with multi monitors and maybe PCs - or maybe these Chromebooks (linked to a cooled locked machine room with servers*, like we had at Topic Animation Studio in Toronto). In time with funding I'd get rid of the 1080p monitors and just have many of the same model 4k monitors - also for teleprompters and camera monitors. With great funding I'd set up a large 4k wall screen rather than the projector. In the meantime, we'll use either John or Stasha or both of their projectors, run off a PC or Chromebook.
*At Hakka, besides my big space to renovate is a storage hall, a kitchen nook, and a large walk-in-closet sized room that is floor to ceiling with old dishes I have to get rid of. The dishes are all too big or too small or have Chinese designs and can't be used by the Nepali restaurant. When those dishes are gone, either it will be an office, animation/edit suite, machine room, or a combo.
This Chromebook seems very nice, and it's on my list now, but first I need to fill up my DAS, get a car, and one (ideally get two or three) Canon R50vs (now $100 less than last time!), some nice lenses, (and two more Akaso action cameras) - plus some gear (wireless recording mics, mixer, C-stands, better lights, etc.). Besides eventually aiming to also get a home-server and web-server, an animation desk, and a moderate slow motion camera, I couldn't think of anything more that could be practical - it all needs to be used to be useful, it all needs to be stored in limited space, and it all needs to become sustainable and maybe profitable. I'll be getting a nice little chunk back from catching up with 14 years of taxes - but it can only cover a few of the items on Santa's Wish List.