Drew DeVaultFeb 19, 2020

Crippling flaws with the laptops people pretend to like:

Old thinkpads: shit battery life

New thinkpads: shit keyboards, shit upstream driver support

Pine64: flimsy case, bad performance, questionable freedom

System32: giant bulky things charged at twice the price of anything else

Librem: giant bulky things charged at three times the price of anything else

Dell XPS: absolutely godawful firmware, they should be strung up in the town square for it, crippling bugs in every inch of the machine

Show threadSajithFeb 19, 2020
@sir How about an old (pre-2017) MacBook Pro?
Show threadDrew DeVaultFeb 19, 2020
@sajith don't like the keyboards
Show threadSajith

@sir Is using an external keyboard a reasonable compromise? IMO no laptop keyboard can match a good mechanical keyboard. Perhaps the hassle and noise could be worth the trouble?

I'm not trying to anger you further! I'm just curious.

Feb 19, 2020 at 5:16amWeb
Show threadDrew DeVaultFeb 19, 2020
@sajith not really. I use an external keyboard whenever I'm forced to use a laptop as a long-term (several hours) workstation, but most of my laptop usage isn't really that