K0B4LT Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Hello, i was asking myself why IT managers and hacker often use lenovo thinkpad leptops? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebkinne Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Great quality, great Linux support. That's my reasoning at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ftb Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Great quality, great Linux support. That's my reasoning at least. The quality is there, I still have a fully functioning 366Mhz (IBM) laptop running w2k, I believe IBM/Lenovo were also one of the first big manufacturers to start funding support for linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 The quality is there, I still have a fully functioning 366Mhz (IBM) laptop running w2k, I believe IBM/Lenovo were also one of the first big manufacturers to start funding support for linux. Holy crap! I haven't seen that crow since I was a little kid! My step-dad did ECM in the AF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ftb Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Holy crap! I haven't seen that crow since I was a little kid! My step-dad did ECM in the AF. Awesome, I was in ECM/EW for 12 years. I was in the AOC for awhile too. Great field, I learned a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rkiver Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I have multiple IBM/Lenovo thinkpads. They are bloody awesome. Lots of companies just throw out the old ones, I rescue them. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K0B4LT Posted August 29, 2014 Author Share Posted August 29, 2014 I knew the battery thinkpad hard bit is that true? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I knew the battery thinkpad hard bit is that true? ... what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K0B4LT Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 ... what? Sorry, google translator kkk, i mean It is true that the battery of a thinkpad is charged for a short time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbi3 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 I hate a T410 with a standard battery and it get about 1.5 hours life out of it. Its not great battery life (doesn't come close to my macbook *looks at seb*) but it gets the job done. And yes great linux support. If there is any model of laptop that has the best linux support i'd say its a thinkpad and if you are planning on going linux on your laptop you should get a thinkpad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wh1p Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 I have a Lenovo T530 with the 1080p screen option, core i7-3820QM, 16gb ram and the 9 cell battery option, I get about 7-8 hours of battery life on an average days work load. The construction is also solid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 My wife's x220 with the extra battery slice gets around 20 hours of battery life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN.Frank Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 No reason not to give the Dell D430/630/830's a look. They're pretty good laptops too. Lots of HP/Compaq laptops work really well with Linux based Op Systems too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I've had too much bad experiences with Dell laptops (but, as a result, a fair amount of positive experience with Dell support) so no more of those for me if I can help it. Also, the dutch word "del" (same pronounciation) means skank/slut/whore... The Toshiba line of laptops, both Tecra and Sattelite Pro were pretty decent, particularly the Tecras when it came to Linux support. Currently I'm on my third HP. First some dinky old piece of crap as I waited for an actual developers laptop, and then 2 EliteBook 8740w's, the first of which got replaced when a 15cm drop broke the screen. The current one has already broken a plastic tab or two already that was used to hold the bit above the keyboard in place so on the left it's slightly raised, but nothing serious. The mouse buttons around the trackpad are disgustingly poor quality and one of my co-workers actually managed to peel one of them off as he was working. I don't mind a clunky laptop so long as it's a bit rugged and the hardware inside is actually worth using. That first HP I had was more like a manager's laptop: fairly thin but only useful for word and powerpoint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADD Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 This is still my motivation for using a thinkpad, never used it, but its glorious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN.Frank Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Bad experience or not Dell is still one of the few manufactures that's shipped Linux with their computers so that tells me that they've done a bit of homework in getting their equipment set up to work with Linux, which is all I run so for me Dell is a winner. Of course different strokes for different folks, use what you want and what you can afford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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