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bigpup · #21 Post by **bigpup** » Sat 05 Jan 2019, 13:15

See, you cannot even get it to spell correctly!

Dingo · #22 Post by **Dingo** » Sat 05 Jan 2019, 18:32

What about asus vivobook series (especially vivobook X540MA-GQ024) ? I remember Barry Kauler bought a vivobook some time ago and everything was working

olddog · #23 Post by **olddog** » Sat 05 Jan 2019, 23:11

Thinkpads are superb, especially the T series.

I am running Xenial64 on an Edge 15 - my sofa laptop; and also on a T61 - my music machine which feeds a DAC connected to the hi-fi.

The T61 is quite elderly (2007) but is quite fast enough thanks to Puppy and an SSD.

T Series are expensive when new and still feel good many years later. I have a couple of broken T42s which I am trying to fix, and a T430 running Windows pro tem.

The T42s came out in 2004, so are really too old now for serious use, but the T61 is OK, and the T430 (2013) is still a very competitive machine. It was the first Thinkpad to sport USB3 ports so is the one to go for if you want an inexpensive but (relatively) modern laptop.

Bill3 · #24 Post by **Bill3** » Mon 07 Jan 2019, 22:45

Thanks for all of the good information. I'll watch what becomes available and you'll probably know what happened when I show up looking more help making things work. The assistance here is always much appreciated.

Bill3

Burn_IT · #25 Post by **Burn_IT** » Tue 08 Jan 2019, 11:42

My daily machine is a T43P maxed out.

olddog · #26 Post by **olddog** » Wed 13 Feb 2019, 20:57

Burn_IT wrote:My daily machine is a T43P maxed out.

I should perhaps have written that the T42 is not suitable for serious play. It's quite powerful enough for things like spreadsheets, but I believe it can struggle to cope with lots of web pages, and the screen proportions are not ideal for watching films.

I'm about to replace the T61 that supplies music to the HiFi system with a T42. If I did a lot of writing I would much prefer to type out deathless prose on a typical 4:3 T42 screen than on a modern 16:9.

labbe5 · #27 Post by **labbe5** » Sun 01 Dec 2019, 10:15

https://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/exe-f ... linux.html
My new Lenovo Carbon X1 Gen 7 has one irritating problem: the trackpad sometimes disappears, flooding dmesg with messages like "i2c_designware i2c_designware.1: controller timed out". Once this happens, the only fix is to reboot.

Lenovo has a fix -- new trackpad firmware -- but unlike their BIOS updates, which are installable from Linux, device firmware updates are distributed as Windows EXE files that require running Windows on the bare metal, leaving Linux users out in the cold. Ironic, since Lenovo is so popular among Linux users and is a member of the Linux Firmware Service, and the CX1 is supposedly Ubuntu certified.

Those Linux users on the forums who managed to install the firmware update raved about it, saying that indeed it solved their problem. But finding a way to to install it led me on a not-so-merry four-day quest.

Here's how I installed the firmware, in the end:

mikeslr · #28 Post by **mikeslr** » Mon 02 Dec 2019, 00:44

Well, labbe5, it wasn't "the end". You put a ":" at the end.

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