Ian K TindaleMar 9
Where are the Thinkpad people on the fediverse? I’m becoming slightly open to the idea of having a computer that isn’t a MacBook, for the first time in, well, since Macs. Apparently the Thinkpad is the one to go for but I now discover they have a whole load of numbers and letters.

Looking at the specifications on YouTube for ‘greatest Thinkpad ever’ or ‘Thinkpad to install Linux on’ type of videos it looks to me that they’re fine for boring office stuff but I’m using Macs for art and design, and the thinkpads they all mention seem to have basic non-retina screens.

I should point out that I’ve never ever used the ‘windows’ OS, so have never used non Mac computers, but I’ve slightly used Linux as a user (not an expert) since the turn of the century but not on a serious level for art, not while I’ve got Macs sitting around.

Is there an ideal Thinkpad for Linux for art and design? That doesn’t cost too much? That’s still maintainable and repairable? #Thinkpad #Thinkpads
Show threadSimon GreenwoodMar 9
@u0421793 I use refurbished ones and have a 2020 T14 and a 2022 P14s incoming. The T14 is currently my music laptop but struggles with some modern plugins, which is why I'm getting the P14s, which has an AMD processor as modern ones tend to work better with processor and graphic intensive workloads. So I'd say top end machine, AMD processor, refurbished for price.
Show threadSimon Greenwood
@u0421793 Actually, one warning, Lenovo build quality isn't great these days. The T14 needed a USB-C port replacing and the P14s I've just got has a transient problem with its USB-C port out of the box. I found a post from Reddit from last year where an IT tech from a large office was saying that their fail rate was something like 40% and usually involved a replacement motherboard. My Framework is a good machine but that depends on how you feel about your money going to projects driven by right-wingers.
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Show threadIan K TindaleMar 10
@simon 40%, down to the soldered-on USB-C socket? That's bad.

My attention has come away from Thinkpads upon learning that the screens will never match a good MacBook Pro, and that'll just irk me forever, so I won't do that. I’m now wondering what the most fixable and prolongable MacBook ever was, and I’m suspecting it might be something in the range of the A1402 I already have. I've already replaced the MagSafe port, which burned out, levered up the adhered battery set, changed the top plate for another with another battery on and another keyboard and trackpad, changed the trackpad ribbon (none of which fixed the trackpad, so I now suspect the muthaboard might have been damaged from the first puffy battery, whenever I press on the built-in keyboard it misses keystrokes, as it did on the original keyboard on the original top-plate.

I don’t know.
Show threadSimon GreenwoodMar 10
@u0421793
It's true, Mac hardware is part of what you pay for. I've been idly wondering whether late model Intel Macs would be worth putting Linux on when they finally fall out of support, more for longevity than anything. I think that what you're saying has happened to yours would be the thing that kills them, basically age.