After a prior thread here I started nosing around eBay and landed a real steal.
A few days ago I was working at home and UPS came to the door with a box for me. I signed for it, opened the box and this was inside:
A dream come true....I actually have my own ThinkPad!
To be specific, I went on eBay and landed a 2015 ThinkPad X1 Carbon. It even has a three year next day service warranty on it. And (to cue a prior thread) even though thin and light it feels solid enough to beat someone to death with it and then start doing other things on it.
We have the ThinkPad keyboard:
Backlit, perfectly shaped (ThinkPads have concave keys with a shield shape and the result is much better typing accuracy than on flat topped island keys) and the travel on them is superb! And yes that little red bulb is the TrackPoint. The three buttons above the trackpad are controls for the TrackPoint and I am rapidly getting to the point where I don't bother with the trackpad as the TrackPoint is fast and precise.
Display is gorgeous and 1440p and (yay!) with a semi matte finish that makes it very easy to see in sunlight. It is full RGB and IPS to boot:
Add in FAST hardware (Broadwell Core i7 with 256GB SSD) and a RapidCharge battery that fully recharges in about 65 minutes and this is premium stuff - I got a big bargain on eBay which I verified by going to the local Computer shop and letting the tech check it out. It is in primo condition and everything is working perfectly.
In order to make this cost neutral I sold off some stuff on eBay too. To me it is a worthwhile exchange as now I have a non-Apple screamer of a portable laptop. Even better, with the Broadwell CPU and Windows 8.1 Pro on it (I'll push it to Windows 10 when it is released, for now I am using Classic Shell to tame the UI) I have free built in virtualization via Hyper-V, so multiple OSes here I come.
A few days ago I was working at home and UPS came to the door with a box for me. I signed for it, opened the box and this was inside:
A dream come true....I actually have my own ThinkPad!
To be specific, I went on eBay and landed a 2015 ThinkPad X1 Carbon. It even has a three year next day service warranty on it. And (to cue a prior thread) even though thin and light it feels solid enough to beat someone to death with it and then start doing other things on it.
We have the ThinkPad keyboard:
Backlit, perfectly shaped (ThinkPads have concave keys with a shield shape and the result is much better typing accuracy than on flat topped island keys) and the travel on them is superb! And yes that little red bulb is the TrackPoint. The three buttons above the trackpad are controls for the TrackPoint and I am rapidly getting to the point where I don't bother with the trackpad as the TrackPoint is fast and precise.
Display is gorgeous and 1440p and (yay!) with a semi matte finish that makes it very easy to see in sunlight. It is full RGB and IPS to boot:
Add in FAST hardware (Broadwell Core i7 with 256GB SSD) and a RapidCharge battery that fully recharges in about 65 minutes and this is premium stuff - I got a big bargain on eBay which I verified by going to the local Computer shop and letting the tech check it out. It is in primo condition and everything is working perfectly.
In order to make this cost neutral I sold off some stuff on eBay too. To me it is a worthwhile exchange as now I have a non-Apple screamer of a portable laptop. Even better, with the Broadwell CPU and Windows 8.1 Pro on it (I'll push it to Windows 10 when it is released, for now I am using Classic Shell to tame the UI) I have free built in virtualization via Hyper-V, so multiple OSes here I come.
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