Christiano Haesbaert
Recently I ordered a Thinkpad T14s, came with dead pixels, so I sent it back.
Then I ordered a Thinkpad x9 15, what a wonderful machine, really everything I wanted.
First day: gave me a suspicious segfault. Second day: can't even boot a usb disk anymore, it's dead, random segfaults everywhere.
Fuck me, how hard it is to have a laptop that works.
Dec 18 at 8:10pmWeb
Show threadAnurag SoniDec 18
@haesbaert huh I wonder if the X1 carbons will have better quality control? The X9 looks pretty different from the usual thinkpad lineup.
Show threadChristiano HaesbaertDec 18
@soni I honestly think it's all semi-fucked, t14s should have been decent, it came with at least 20 dead pixels, all in the center, I noticed the first time I booted, so it's not like someone booted and looked at it at all :/.
Show threadAnurag SoniDec 19

@haesbaert Ugh that's annoying. Buying from Lenovo is kinda annoying in general (at-least in the US) as their website doesn't make it easy to find what you need, and their games around prices that vary wildly day to day. It looks like their quality control is also dipping over the years.

I've been thinking about switching back to Linux on the laptop for a while but so far not a lot of hardware options have felt good enough to switch from my old-ish MacBook Air. (Lenovo/Thinkpad is what I was thinking of for good linux support). I suppose I'll keep chugging along for some more time with my MacBook + Linux desktop pairing.

Show threadChristiano HaesbaertDec 19

@soni Yeah, I totally get it, I can't stand using a mac, but it would be nice to be able to just buy something that works and it's decent.
I called support today and they will replace my machine, if the third one comes broken I'm giving up and buying something from starlabs.

The T14s felt cheap, the x9 is really nice, and it's lighter than my wife's mac air m2, so pretty much a win, assuming they work :/.

Show threadAnurag SoniDec 19
@haesbaert Starlabs looks nice! There definitely seem to be more smaller/boutique options in the EU for Linux friendly hardware!